“It is true that we are in charge of our imaginations, and by using them to imagine wonderful futures for ourselves, and… — Wu Wei Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand. — Urijah Faber Copy Share Image
It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“I believe in the reincarnation of the imagination. Many thousands of years ago, a dreamer lay in a field at night. He… — Edward Pontacoloni Copy Share Image
No matter how entrenched in the imagination of the average Christian the image of a male God might be, theological tradition has… — Sandra Marie Schneiders Copy Share Image
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
Our vision is only actionable if we share it. Without sharing, it’s just a figment of our imagination. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
“In the past I had often tried to escape the grown-up world of sorrow through my imagination- dreaming that a handsome young… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order. — William Morris Copy Share Image
As a viewer, I really want to watch author-backed stories, and there is something amazing about thrillers, the way it captivates your… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America.… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do.… — Darby Stanchfield Copy Share Image
Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“There are gods and daimons and heroes in our perceptions, feelings, ideas and actions, and these fantasy persons determine how we see,… — Sandra Dennis Copy Share Image
“Arousal begins within the mind, then seeps out where fantasy propels physicality.” — Kristie LeVangie Copy Share Image
“In the right frame of mind, to walk from one room in a house to another can be exploration of the highest… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“If necessity is the mother of invention than imagination must be the egg. Nothing can be invented which has not first been… — Chrissy Byers Copy Share Image
Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separateness - the false sense of isolation that… — Jeraldine Saunders Copy Share Image
As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
