Imagination Quotes

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I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was… — Henry David Thoreau
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show… — Walter Scott
What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's… — William Butler Yeats
You can manifest the life you truly want with clear intention, emotional intelligence and imagination...like it or not, your life is what you have chosen. — Gregg Braden
It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as… — Hector Berlioz
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a… — Umberto Eco
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. — Isaac D'Israeli
I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work… — Ludwig van Beethoven
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses. — Leonardo da Vinci
It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the… — Leonardo da Vinci
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force. — John Dewey
The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. — Albert Einstein
Microsoft is a company that manages imagination. — Bill Gates
The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination. — Gary Hamel
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. — William Hazlitt
For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we… — Thomas Hobbes
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. — D. H. Lawrence
What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my… — James Lovelock

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