Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
“By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love love. Growing up, I always thought it was a state, and I'd wait for it to appear. Now I think… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
The ability to discern the thoughts and motives of your heart (especially when experiencing intense emotion) is an essential skill for the… — Lou Priolo Copy Share Image
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“Many calls to adventure are puzzles waiting to be solved. Anyone can apply, but the price of admission is paid in imagination.… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
“When I first began to explore the nature of the mind professionally, there was no term in our everyday language that captured… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“The truth is that what fascinates me is not so much being in a place as not being there: how places live… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life. When you're young, you have no worries, no drama,… — Devon Werkheiser Copy Share Image
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“For you need imagination to form a notion of beauty at all, and still more to discover your ideal in an unfamiliar… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.… — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“What is the antithesis of imagination? I am. Outside of my mind, there is nothing but acceptance of the truth. My truth.” — The Overlord Copy Share Image
I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
“A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far… — Oleta Adams Copy Share Image
“To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this… — H.L. Stephens Copy Share Image
Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive?… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to… — Horace Copy Share Image
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I believe imagination to be a uniquely human gift. The reason I like my job, and have liked it for more than… — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become… — James Welch Copy Share Image
Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
