Top 997 Imagination Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer.

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

People can die of mere imagination.

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.