The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For two days I had the company of a girl. She appeared next to me. It was no less of a miracle… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Creating stories is like breathing for me. With one foot or at least a toe always grounded in my imagination, I am… — Y.L. Cantrell Copy Share Image
“It's the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible,… — Cory Althoff Copy Share Image
I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes - the stories in my head… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Could be I've finally gone crazy, but men crazier than me have done greater things than I've ever dreamed, so we'll see… — Drew Bankston Copy Share Image
The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
“Perception is a fantasy that coincides with reality. —Christ Firth, from Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World” — Alberto Cairo Copy Share Image
It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Without imagination and without love, life can be pretty bleak. I think having both will get you through the most dire of… — Tiya Sircar Copy Share Image
Nobody else in the world would look at writing as craftsmanship - it's totally this Protestant hardworking ethic. You go into this… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“ITALIANO Non ho mai ritenuto reale la mia fantasia, ma ritengo molto fantasiosa la mia realtà. ENGLISH I've never felt my fantasy… — Gianluca Frangella Copy Share Image
