The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Such a storm of emotions as humans can evoke, all on the basis of imagination,” the dragon observed condescendingly. In a more… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past. I think if you're a competent actor with a… — Miguel Ferrer Copy Share Image
“It always surprises me when people assume that something an artist has created is based on a true experience or reflects his… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Today's president, CEO or managing director needs to be a disruptive influence with imagination, vision, and courage to lead the organization into… — Paul Sloane Copy Share Image
You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
The imagination and the place that dreams come from is so huge and so important. I'm trying to write about the real… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Our imagination can be an umbrella that does not stop the rain but allows us to walk through it. Imagination transforms the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
“Nerissa was floating in a dream, a place outside of time, on the horizon of life and death, where fantasy and reality… — Rachel R. Smith Copy Share Image
I became an actress because I discovered the world of the imagination when I was about 14 or so and the concept… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist', i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
“It’s true that life seems so more much exciting when you write it down as fantasy. But then again, there are some… — Ashley Townsend Copy Share Image
There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That's grossing money for other people that has a multiplying factor, but the government doesn't see that. It doesn't see that making… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material.… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“In the absence of sleep, my restless nights have been fueled by my overactive imagination, weaving waking dreams onto the canvas of… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“When you imagine and clearly articulate your goals in writing, you access the creative energy of your right brain. Imagination and creativity… — Julie Connor Copy Share Image
There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
![“It always surprises me when people assume that something an artist has created is based on a true experience or reflects his or her own lifestyle. Often nothing could be farther from the truth. [...] An artist's imagination is his greatest tool. It can create a mood or feeling that people want to…” quote by Michael Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c55/michael-jackson-411_art_it-always-surprises-me-when-people-assum_1700075.jpg)
![“You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is…” quote by Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a65/alice-walker-347_block_you-are-saying-are-you-not-i-said-to-man_2970096.png)
![“Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singer-songwriter]: 'Les imbciles heureux qui sont ns quelquepart.' I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is…” quote by Amelie Nothomb](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/70d/amelie-nothomb-1581_born_definitely-more-and-more-i-understand-th_1751287.jpg)
![“There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes…” quote by Clive Barker](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/2c1/clive-barker-773_archetype_there-are-things-that-are-more-important_1942826.jpg)
