Imagination Quotes · Page 107

“When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.”

— Patience Johnson

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

— Iris Murdoch

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

— Judy Garland

“power relations that transformed figments of imagination into cruel – and very real – social structures.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

— Edgar Degas

Be specific. Sometimes you'll be lost because of your broad imagination.

— Joantonette Morano

Whatever your sex fantasy is with your partner, consider it normal.

— Harriet Lerner

Don't make your life difficult. Life is for you to enjoy so, create your beautiful life using your powerful imagination.

— Anonymous

I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J.…

— John Tiffany

There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in…

— Alex Gibney

I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places…

— Sharon Salzberg

“When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of…

— Eva Hoffman

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine…

— Rhys Ifans

“Your imagination can take you to the best and worst places. It is a ship on a sea of dreams and it's…

— Aliya Whiteley

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I…

— Jimi Hendrix

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have…

— Ron Johnson

'Fright Night' I can just about deal with. Because the original is such a 1980s extravaganza. Which is a good thing. Obviously.…

— Imogen Poots

The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of…

— Marc Gafni

The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The…

— Zhuangzi

A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction…

— Karl Marx

Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography…

— Francis Levy

...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who…

— Charlton Ogburn

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

— Robinson Jeffers

I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.

— Sheila Heti

If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen

— Muhammad Yunus

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

— e. e. cummings

Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.

— Alice Sebold

A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.

— Edgar Degas

“Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.”

— Michael J. Kannengieser

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

— Plato

“You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.”

— Mark Twain

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

— Oprah Winfrey

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

— Russell Page

I just envisioned little fire fighter men marching on trees. So cute.

— Anette Sandberg

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

— George Berkeley

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

— Guy Davenport