Top 997 Imagination Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Boredom is your imagination calling to you.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

I am touched by my readers who loved my books. All the stories are true incidents in life. Now I have realised, any amount of imagination will not be as beautiful as the real life.

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

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.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

From fiction, you do not get to learn much because it is only imagination. Whereas, from non-fiction, people can understand and learn from the realities it covers.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

What is now proved was once only imagined.