“Half asleep and half awake, I became lost in a deep span of my version of a perfect world. A place I… — Katlyn Charlesworth Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
“Confine your imagination. Do not lose yourself to dangerous daydreams. Do not sit and ponder and dwell on a life you are… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Edmund Burke said “there is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
“[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
There are people a lot smarter than me investigating nature versus nurture who would have a lot to say about that, but… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny,… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
“And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity.… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
“[T]he imagination identifies … the external God with the soul of man. The imagination is … the true place of an existence… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The human mind’s innate ability to imagine and create ensures that we never remain stalled out in who we are. We constantly… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A steampunk nation Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause Our art's official and only partially artificial And our… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If… — Polly Young-Eisendrath Copy Share Image
The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of… — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
“But I have believed always and taught always that what God demands from man is his utmost effort to cooperate and understand.… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“It was an ugly fucking house. Even angry as I was, I didn’t want to go in. If it is possible for… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world.… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The optimization of cosmic darkness and of Earth's location within the dark universe that sacrifices neither the material needs of human beings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I… — Natasha Calis Copy Share Image
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
![“[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the “widespread and sophisticated development of visual-spatial skills.” We can, for example, rotate objects in our…” quote by Nicholas G. Carr](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/4c5/nicholas-g-carr-18458_brain_patricia-greenfield-concluded-that-every_2022994.jpg)
![“And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity. That too is a great advantage of the folk tale. It is not a failure of imagination to see the sky blue. It is a failure rather to be weary of its being blue- and not to notice how blue it…” quote by Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/2c4/anthony-esolen-32671_anthony-esolen_and-those-characters-in-a-fairy-tale-dwe_2085690.jpg)
![“[T]he imagination identifies … the external God with the soul of man. The imagination is … the true place of an existence which is absent, not present to the senses, though nevertheless sensational in its essence. Only the imagination solves the contradiction in an existence which is at once…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/089/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_creativity_t-he-imagination-identifies-the-external_1313494.png)
![“For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.” quote by James Gleick](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/080/james-gleick-2623_creativity_for-richard-feynman-the-essence-of-the-s_2132894.jpg)
