Top 997 Imagination Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

A lot of these liberal churches that harbor illegal immigrants who are criminals say they are following the example of Jesus. They are following the Jesus of their imagination rather than the Jesus of the Bible.

Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other. For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one. So, I'm somewhere in the middle, which - in my perfect imagination - is like having the best of both sexes.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

We need more imagination, more innovation and more public financing for projects and programmes that harness the positive energy of young men.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

Being on the left is supposed to be about unbounded optimism, a belief that what is deemed politically impossible by the 'sensible grownups' of politics can be realised, with sufficient imagination and determination.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable. It's not your physical life, but it's everything else, so it felt like a lot was at stake.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

To put it simply, I'm not interested in making comfortable films, and I don't want to crush the audience's imagination. I want them to feel like they might have missed something.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of black people was based on their fear of us, not the reality of who we are.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.