Imagination Quotes

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Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge… — Ernst Stuhlinger
On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden… — Tom Robbins
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. — Peggy Noonan
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income. — Leonard Orr
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far… — Francis Cabot Lowell
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do. — Trevor Nunn
By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you. — Ralph Nader
You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and… — Peter Shaffer
What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a… — Julius Sumner Miller
God is the original, master forgiver. Each time we grope our reluctant way through the minor miracle of forgiving, we are imitating his style. I… — Lewis B. Smedes
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty. — Robert Aris Willmott
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace… — John Zerzan
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt. — Benjamin Tucker
It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination. — Havelock Ellis
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things… — Richard P. Feynman
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal Reality-Now. — Sri Chinmoy
Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions. — Richard Bandler
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here… — John Owen
What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian… — J I Packer

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