Imagination Quotes · Page 101

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

— Jules Feiffer

“Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom.”

— Patience Johnson

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

— Michael Pena

I really used my own imagination a lot and made a number of suggestions during my tenure on 'Star Trek.'

— Robert Picardo

Of course it's happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

— JK Rowling

“An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.”

— Steve Smy

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

“Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary.”

— Pat Allen

“imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free. Most of us regard creativity…

— Sean Patrick

The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in…

— Lysander Spooner

Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy…

— Brian Tracy

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for…

— Milan Kundera

When you aren't artificially and externally stimulated you are forced to draw on your internal resources - your brain, imagination, creativity.

— Ulrika Jonsson

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

— Emile Coue

If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need…

— Ryohgo Narita

Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write…

— Amy Sedaris

I was always in and out of school. What I learned in high school is that female friendships are so much more…

— Kirsten Dunst

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the…

— William Blake

It was really always about bringing back [James] Baldwin's words in all their rawness, in all their impact - in the way…

— Raoul Peck

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.…

— James Dean

All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I…

— Paul Eluard

The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are…

— Joanna Macy

I was there when Sam Raimi showed Stan Lee the first cut of the first Spider-Man movie. I was on a couch…

— Brian Michael Bendis

That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.

— Pearl Cleage

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

— William Blake

I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

— Raymond Buckland

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

— Napoleon Hill

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

— Ann Wilson

I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.

— DeRay Mckesson

“YOUR LEFT BRAIN IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND REASONING. AND YOUR RIGHT BRAIN IS YOUR IMAGINATION AND YOUR VISION.”

— Lee Vickers

If a fantasy, if a story can help you feel something, I think that's really cool.

— Andrew Lincoln

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

— Hannah John-Kamen

Fantasy and reality are most exciting when mixed just enough to cloud the difference.

— John Duffy

All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

— Rhona Mitra

“Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours”

— Carl Henegan

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

— Max Lucado

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

— Helen Rowland

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

— Wallace Stevens