Imagination Quotes · Page 98

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

— Rose George

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

— Sigmund Freud

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

— George Bernard Shaw

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

— Laura Linney

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

— Virginia Woolf

The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know…

— Suheir Hammad

“Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism”

— Robert Holdstock

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches…

— Meher Baba

It's been by turns frustrating and fascinating and wonderful beyond imagination. If what I suspect is true, it's one of the most…

— Steven M. Greer

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The…

— Anonymous

Worry is like sitting on a rocking chair, shaking your inner self. It is something taking out your very essentials and does…

— Anil Sinha

“By fantasizing one builds a more predictable world, and then one has no time to notice what is really happening, because of…

— Peter Nadas

In order to live our lives without limits we must be willing to never let our imaginations die, and we must never…

— Anonymous

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from…

— Ai Weiwei

For writers, you just have to have the ability to not restrict your imagination. Men can write about women; women can write…

— Mike O'Malley

The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If you are to do justice to [the great roles], you must fly up to them - rather than dragging them down…

— Harold Guskin

When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers' imaginative powers, increasing expectation - like a…

— Caspar David Friedrich

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or…

— Albert Einstein

Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person.…

— Mark Doty

Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering…

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

“The magic in writing is not so much using your imagination as it is allowing the reader to uses theirs. When I…

— Carl Henegan

Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having…

— Zoe Tapper

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

— Susan Sarandon

You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

— George Bernard Shaw

“to liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination.”

— Robin S. Sharma

I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things.

— Yohji Yamamoto

The whole basketball world, it's a fantasy and it's short-lived.

— DeMarcus Cousins

What we wish for in fantasy is not necessarily tolerable in reality.

— Kumar Anupam

Space and time are figments of you're imagination, unless the guy you're flying next to won't shut up.

— Dov Davidoff

“What would be the purpose of having an imagination and not using it?”

— Janice Hanna

A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination.

— Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

— Stephen King

I don't see myself as an object, I see myself more as a fantasy to men.

— Keeley Hazell

“Everyday, Jay would sit under a giant elm tree and imagine the adventures his life might bring.”

— Ilchi Lee

Every action preformed in the world first begins in the imagination.

— Mathew Gubbler/ Criminal Minds

When you are far away from reality, your fantasy won't work.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

“If dangerous ideas didn't excite the imagination, we would never wander astray.”

— Heimerdinger the Revered Inventor

“You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.”

— Rebecca Murphy