Imagination Quotes - Page 7

One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh.

Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.

Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.

Mark Dery

I cover the floor with a thin layer of imagination so that i’ll always land softly.

Anna Jae

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.

I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flagstones, but my heart was far away, even if it beat close by, false master of an estranged and exiled body.

Fernando Pessoa

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves

Haruki Murakami

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

Change starts with imagination

I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there.

Drop down all those imaginations and feelings that "Success is built on Success". A HERO can be built from ZERO. Begin from where you stand with what you have!

Israelmore Ayivor

He ached for creation. For life to somehow rise from the drawings in his sketching book. For his own energy, his own impressions to swirl and spin on a canvas. For a dream city he had tacked above his bed.

C.S. Richardson

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?

Michael Bassey Johnson

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination.

James C. Emlund

I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool... Yes, it is want of imagination that makes people fools; they won't believe what they can't understand.

H. Rider Haggard

Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.

Tom Boellstorff

We tend to think of imagination and foresight like we are prone to think of life (sometimes) -- as an inscrutable flash of something from the outside that magically takes us over some large boundary in one atomic step. We even call it a flash (of insight), a eureka moment, a light bulb in our heads that suddenly turns on. But if you reflect on this phenomenon for a moment, you know you don't go suddenly from a blank mind to a fully formed solution. You were already thinking about the problem, and other near solutions that don't work, when suddenly you see a new connection that enables you to reuse familiar things on a novel way. Insight comes in small increments, leveraging what was already there.

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Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend... He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.

Lauren Cagliola Green

The Kingdom of Heaven is within and it lies beyond your wildest imagination, so expect a roller coaster ride to get there!

Don't harness a child's imagination, encourage it so it knows no bounds!

K. Lamb

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.

L.M. Montgomery

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come.I’m free, and against organized, clothed society.I’m naked and plunge into the water of my imagination.

Fernando Pessoa

Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.

Terry Pratchett

If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.

When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, “Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end.

Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be.

To hide away from the world whose loveless heart has gone astrayand its inhabitants what could be a safer place than my imagination?

Anna Jae

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

Shane Claiborne

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I closed my eyelids, and imagination, taking up the thread of thought, shot its swift shuttle back across the ages, weaving a picture on their blackness so real and vivid in its details that I could almost for a moment think that I had triumphed o'er the Past, and that my spirit's eyes had pierced the mystery of Time.

H. Rider Haggard

You must know where you're and see what's ahead of you, by doing that you'll be able to achieve your dreams and goals. This sort of journey is called the power of sight and the power of imagination. Without the capacity of imagination the future is doomed.

Euginia Herlihy

Imaginative mind is the seed of every dream and every vision. It always starts from our minds before the manifestation.

Euginia Herlihy

Writing opens the door to imagination.

Step aboard and we will fly through the window, through the sky

Brian Wildsmith

Let’s pursue the visage of imagination

Your imagination will take you to places.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted. If she couldn't change the reality of her situation, she could change her perception of it. She could enter into the lives of the characters in her books, sharing their journeys while she remained seated in her chair.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from the book in her lap. She wondered sometimes, why she bothered with books. If she wanted to hallucinate, all she had to do was get up in the morning.

What we talk about less often, because it is harder to explain, is the way a perfume can give breath and body to the phantom selves that waft about us as we go through our days -- not just the showgirl, the femme fatale, and the ingenue, but all the memories and dreams of the taller, meaner, sharper, sweeter, softer people we have been or long to be.

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.

You can't teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination

K. Lamb

The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.

My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imagination, they never happen in one's life.

Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend. He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.

Lauren Cagliola Green

I am a daydreamer.. I daydream a lot, and thus is when my wicked imagination emerges to bleed upon my paper...

Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move.

The curse of imagination is picturing the world as it should be.

Morley

Today's make believe is tomorrow's creativity.

K. Lamb

I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God’s infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God’s image.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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