Imagination Quotes · Page 123

One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.

— John Allen Paulos

“Dreams can only become reality when they are sought after with the spirit of boldness.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

— Kerry Thornley

Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.

— Laura Antoniou

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

— Ryan Holiday

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

— William Butler Yeats

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

— Russell Simmons

“There is only one key to opportunity, its called #imagination!”

— RemyBlack

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination.…

— Jessica Hagedorn

“There is no storm in the depth of illuminated thought. Everything is 'above', for what is 'below' is nothing but imagination for…

— Solomon's 34th Ode

Creativity can be defined as an original act of imagination that brings something into existence. It is a desire and innate drive…

— Shaun McNiff

“He knew that her eyes were made up of dozens of shades of brown, with that one enchanting circle of green constantly…

— Julia Quinn

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And…

— Ram Dass

“I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I…

— Garon Whited

It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world…

— William H. Gass

“The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The…

— F.T. McKinstry

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself…

— Henning Mankell

“The conscious energy of attention can be used to do literally anything because it’s a focalization of the imagination, the binding life…

— Sol Luckman

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it…

— Ralph Ellison

Imagine: You've spent all day traipsing around London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been…

— Kevin Brooks

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination,…

— Gary Zukav

My anxiety about disasters is lower. The more you know, the less scary any of this stuff is. And that's my hope…

— Amanda Ripley

“Contrary to the dogma downloaded from our many cult-like institutions of higher (actually lower) learning, we’re not in any way separate from…

— Sol Luckman

As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is…

— Jim Nollman

I get bored with our political correctness; I find it irritating, dreary and lacking in imagination.

— Tara Fitzgerald

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

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Imagination is the key ingredient into overcoming fear and doubt.

— Jeremy Limn

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

— Anne Waldman

His imaginary girlfriend has left him. Due to lack of imagination, he cant imagine a life without her...

— Green Monk

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

— Wallace Stevens

When you get lost in a wild notion and invest too much, then afterwards you're like daym where was I?

— Kid Cudi

“You can imagine another well— but never quite perfectly, you know?”

— John Green

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

— Pat Conroy

Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy.

— Sakyong Mipham

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

— William Shakespeare

I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

— Josh McDermitt

“Your imagination has an impressive reach.” “Or my boredom an impressive scope.”

— Julie Anne Long

“Imagination holds the key to finding potentials to pursue.”

— Steven Redhead

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

— Edmund Burke

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

— Paul David Tripp