Imagination Quotes · Page 66

I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

— Steve Martin

My mom used to say, “You cannot experience what you cannot imagine ... yet you always experience what you do imagine.

— Sonia

“To write a world of fantasy from your heart is to create a world of fantasy in another's mind”

— Rob Shepherd

“What a strange thing to consider imagining a world into being with nothing but words, intention, and desire.”

— Blake Crouch

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

— Kate Micucci

“‎"Based on a true story"? No, thanks. I prefer "based on a true imagination".”

— Enkelejd Lamaj

“Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.”

— Miriam Allen de Ford

“Delight yourself with imagination and artistry and be inspired by life’s beauty.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating…

— Stephen Vizinczey

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

— Arthur C. Clarke

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

— Sarah Fielding

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping…

— J. G. Ballard

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own…

— Albert Ellis

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be…

— Stephen King

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's…

— Gottfried Leibniz

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from…

— John Arbuthnot

For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the…

— Janine Benyus

Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Literature and the other arts play with pattern - our brains understand our world by recognizing patterns - and with possibility. The…

— Brian Boyd

“Like it or not, we’re doomed or blessed—depending on your perspective—to inhabit an eternally looping circuit that involves our thoughts, innermost desires,…

— Sol Luckman

If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end…

— Bertrand Russell

If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a…

— Julian Baggini

But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic…

— David Graeber

It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom,…

— Robinson Jeffers

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

— Lauryn Hill

My career has exceeded beyond all fantasy and expectations that I ever held.

— Michelle Zauner

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

— Bill Hicks

“What are these hopes, and who is this savior?” “Imagination,” replied Cincinnatus.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

— Henry Miller

Before you can do something that you've never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible.

— Jean Shinoda Bolen

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

— Adam Johnson

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

— Terry Brooks

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

— Edward Abbey

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

— Daphne Guinness

I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.

— Julianne Malveaux

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that…

— Ossie Davis

“He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military…

— H.W. Brands

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

— Douglas Lenat

My birth mom has certainly not lived a life of means in any stretch of the imagination, nor does she want to.

— Patrick Murphy