Imagination Quotes · Page 106

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

— Terry Brooks

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

— Cory Booker

Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.

— Haile Selassie

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

— Bertrand Russell

“What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.”

— Meredith Duran

My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!

— Judy Blume

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes…

— Kenneth Clark

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do…

— Steven Wright

“For you need imagination to form a notion of beauty at all, and still more to discover your ideal in an unfamiliar…

— Joseph Conrad

It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those…

— Andrew Sean Greer

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning…

— Flora Thompson

...thinking from the end causes me to behave as if all that I'd like to create is already here. My credo is:…

— Wayne Dyer

Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of…

— Lloyd Alexander

I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's…

— Regina Taylor

When you draw in a tight, controlled style, you open yourself up to - in my case, my own - criticism that…

— Jessica Abel

Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Why,' I said, quite surprised by my own eloquence in inventing all this stuff, 'it happens every day. The old old story.…

— Joyce Cary

Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good…

— Samuel Johnson

The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination,…

— Bartolome de las Casas

Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts…

— Samuel Johnson

“I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing,…

— Eric Diehl

“This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.”

— Malia Ann Haberman

As truth reality contains a large amount of imagination; in some cases, of lack of imagination.

— Mariana Fulger

The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.

— Roy Horn

“We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again ... .”

— Disney Publishing Worldwide

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

— Michael Phelps

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

— Ken Robinson

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

— Roger Ebert

Appreciate the beauty you see everyday, invent what you desire to see and enjoy the fantasies you love to imagine.

— Terry Mark

The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.

— Ian K. Smith

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

— Daniel Bell

Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.

— Anonymous

“Religion is for those of us with too little imagination…or too much.”

— Commander Pants

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

— Wallace Stevens

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

— Napoleon Hill

When I wake up, I always hope that someone who loved me as much as I loved him will be here on…

— OhItsVynn

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

— Theophile Gautier