Top 1200 Children's Imagination Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.

The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge Because Knowledhe Is Limited But Imagination Is Without Boundaries

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

Where once Lego offered a whimsical form of escapism into the world of the subconscious, encouraging creativity and imagination, it's transformed into a rigid 'box ticking' discipline where children are encouraged to build by conformity.

Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in your search for creative answers to problems. Imagination "stirs up the gift of God in thee." Through your imagination you touch and express the inspiration of the Infinite. Imagination, in the words of Shakespeare, "gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name." You reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, then you bring it down to earth and make it work.

An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.

I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

When you live in a world of imagination, your imagination doesn't necessarily grow old with you.

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.

Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

The indwelling of Christ is a thought particularly fit for the children, because their large faith does not stumble at the mystery, their imagination leaps readily to the marvel, that the King Himself should inhabit a little child's heart.

If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.

I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you're working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you're wearing or where you are.

No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.

When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because our imagination is not touched. One can begin to reason only when a clear picture has been formed in the imagination. Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."