You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen - at the same time… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“Of course! the path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
If you want something you have to strive for it. Period! Nothing is just gonna fly into your hands! So stop dreaming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can't go to sleep… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've… — Christine Anderson Copy Share Image
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For two days I had the company of a girl. She appeared next to me. It was no less of a miracle… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“Successful people have not spared time to achieve their dreams but have struggled to bring their Imaginations to perfection coupled with perfecting… — Emma Kizito Copy Share Image
In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
People all learn things differently, and sometimes imagination isn't considered as useful a tool as it can be in the learning process… — Joshua Henry Copy Share Image
“Terror thrives on the bottomless pit of imagination, and the imagination comes to life with the passage of time. Time is its… — Mark Nykanen Copy Share Image
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Around the country, ideas that originated on the hard right or in the fevered imaginations of conspiracy theorists are finding their way… — Chip Berlet Copy Share Image
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“An imagination submitted to the movement of the Holy Spirit is a powerful tool in the hands of God to write testaments… — alisa hope wagner Copy Share Image
I live inside my own brain, most of the time. So where I am physically doesn't really bother me - if the… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
“I think, use my imagination, and write; therefore, I am. Every day I'm writing, I'm living. Every other day is just waiting.” — Michael Berish Copy Share Image
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind. — Mark Carwardine Copy Share Image
