Quotes and Sayings About Imagination
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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
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The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
-- A. R. Rahman -
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
-- Abdul Kalam -
But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
-- Abel FerraraSource : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.
-- Abraham Zaleznik -
Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.
-- Abraham ZaleznikSource : Abraham Zaleznik (1990). “The managerial mystique: restoring leadership in business”, Harpercollins
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
-- Adam JohnsonSource : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.109, Random House
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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
-- Adam Smith -
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All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All pervading Vishnu , whose nature is Existence- Intelligence ; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.
-- Adi ShankaraSource : "Atma Bodh" translated by Swami Chinmayananda, Chinmaya Mission, (p. 16), 1987.
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My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.
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I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
-- Adrien BrodySource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
-- Ahmet ZappaSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.
-- Ai WeiweiSource : "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.
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Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
-- Akira KurosawaSource : Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.30, Vintage
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I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.
-- Akshay Kumar -
Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
-- Al AlvarezSource : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
-- Al Gore -
If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
-- Alain de Botton -
Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
-- Alain LeRoy LockeSource : Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
-- Alan Bennett -
It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
-- Alan Greenspan