Imagination Quotes · Page 68

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

— Jamie Paolinetti

My job is to make sure there's something about each dress that ignites the bride's imagination.

— Jenny Packham

My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom.

— Lloyd Alexander

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

— William Blake

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

— George Santayana

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

— Mark Twain

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a…

— Miguel Ferrer

“Every repast can have soul and can be enchanting; it asks for only a small degree of mindfulness and a habit of…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their…

— Raymond Carver

“A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its…

— Rachel Lewis

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring,…

— Albert Einstein

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You…

— Ray Bradbury

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

— Erwin Schrodinger

So to keep a fantasy, do not peer too closely at the world; fuzzy vision suits you best. Your creative power, turned…

— Arthur J. Deikman

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

— Devdutt Pattanaik

We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what…

— Chris Wooding

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,…

— Oscar Wilde

To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the…

— John Cowper Powys

I teach you that there is no other aim than to live with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The…

— Anonymous

“I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it…

— Bertrand Russell

I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the…

— Frank Lentricchia

We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though she thinks the…

— Suzanne Collins

“We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.”

— Twyla Tharp

“I’m in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.”

— Moryah DeMott

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

— David James Duncan

In our imaginations we can go anywhere. Travel with me to Redwall in Mossflower country.

— Brian Jacques

I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work.

— Matt Bomer

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

— Hugo Pratt

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

— Robert Carlyle

Anything you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must come to reality.

— Anonymous

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

— Blaise Pascal

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

— Virginia Woolf

“The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

— C.G. Jung

“The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

If u can imagine it, you can achieve it, if you can dream it, you can become it.

— MITAL

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

— Martha Gellhorn

“What is imagination? I don’t believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.”

— Anonymous

Before I was a mother, when I played characters that were mothers, I used my imagination, of course.

— Emily Deschanel