Imagination Quotes · Page 116

Listening to country music as a kid allowed my imagination to run wild.

— Jessica Mauboy

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

— Ambrose Bierce

For me, imagination is more important in climbing than muscle or daredevil antics.

— Reinhold Messner

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

— Giambattista Vico

“We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.”

— Tom Boellstorff

Me and my girlfriend are so different, I exist but she doesn't

— Anonymous

The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

— Arundhati Roy

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

— Jerzy Kosinski

So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear;…

— Michael Scott

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills…

— Charlotte Bunch

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ...…

— George R. R. Martin

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the…

— Dennis Hastert

“Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections…

— Sharon Salzberg

Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never…

— J. K. Rowling

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

— Lin Yutang

l'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination…

— Gerard De Nerval

“...I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings…

— Ken Kesey

Sacrifice: Giving up something good for something better. As I have studied great men and women from the beginning of time, the…

— Hyrum W. Smith

“Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give…

— George Gordon Byron

Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine…

— Alice Walker

I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its…

— Evalyn Walsh McLean

I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an…

— Margaret Mitchell

“The part of the brain that isn't automatic is an imagining machine, feeling all possibilities of feelings: it keeps pushing its way…

— Darin Strauss

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

— C. S. Lewis

“You are far too stolid and unimaginative, Watson, to invent a tale like that.”

— James Lovegrove

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

— Anonymous

Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a dutchess

— Samuel Johnson

The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination.

— Thomas Church

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

— Bruno Mars

“The mind is a universe, and it has the power to completely create any possibility.”

— Lionel Suggs

Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.

— Amitava Kumar

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

— Robert Genn

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

— Max Planck

“Whatever the mind can conceive it can achieve; I can CREATE whatever I can IMAGINE!”

— Cezanne Poetess

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

— Nella Larsen

“of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt”

— Desiree Holt

“What we wish for, dream and imagine is the very framework and foundation of everything we create”

— Cynthia Sue Larson

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir