The part of the brain that isn't automatic is an imagining machine, feeling all possibilities of feelings: it keeps pushing its way into this marshy, pleasant terrain. You struggle against that push, and start to feel your stomach protest. It's not so much even a type of seriousness as it is a circumstance, into which you pass by slow degrees. I've never seen this sufficiently examined. It mutates into a less-unreal reality that still seems different, somehow, than being fully present. Self hate is rarely unconditional.

Darin Strauss

And once their imaginations are liberated, they begin glimpse the grand interconnectedness of all things. Eternity begins to peek out from behind the everyday things and they see the trappings of any earthly moment as the stage and props for Heaven to reveal itself. There is now nothing ordinary. Everything is being used and spun out for His vast scheme and in His eternal economy, nothing is wasted. Suddenly, all the myriad moments and minutiae of a lifetime show their orchestration —there was nothing that did not lead to this! They look over all their time to find that His redemption has always been rushing, swooping, swerving through their experience, racing to and fro to intervene and infuse Grace.

Geoffrey Wood

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

Geoffrey Wood

The power of imagination is a miracle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

Paul Russell

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

Emmuska Orczy

He hurried to car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn't approve of imagination.

J.K. Rowling

Write it down and it will come alive.

Efrat Israeli

Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life in the slowness of limbo gives us a certain layer of births. What a lot of beings we have begun! What a lot of lost springs which have nevertheless, flowed! Reverie toward our past then, reverie looking for childhood seems to bring back lives which which have never taken place, lives which have been imagined. Reverie is a mnemonics of the imagination. In reverie we re-enter into contact with possibilities which destitute has not been able to make use of.

Gaston Bachelard

Use your imagination not to scare you to death but to inspire you to live.

Shannon Leto

Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew nothing of – lies of the land, perhaps. What Katie did know is that out there in the lonely nowhere was a special quietness, free of the sounds of daytime birds or foxes at night – and that it was a quietness she might like to listen to one day.

Carla H. Krueger

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

Ronald Reagan

The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.

William Hurrell Mallock

Radio was theater of the mind.

Ronald Reagan

The only limit on your dreams is your imagination.

Lailah Gifty Akita

On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The moon was always harder to spot and more faded, but it was there if you looked, as many things were.

Carla H. Krueger

You can use your imagination to get exactly what you desire.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman poet matched Homer and harmonized Greek civilization with Roman ideals

John Mark Reynolds

You can't achieve what you can't imagine being done

A.M.M Alusi

Don’t jail your imagination. You cannot imagine beyond your desires. You can't unleash your imagination without the SEEDs of desire.

Assegid Habtewold

The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global

Marilynne Robinson

Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer.

Sam Wineburg

Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the heart of a cyclone.

Azar Nafisi

Great imaginations are the breeding ground for great accomplishments!Great imaginations are like horses, they need guidance and proper nurturing, only then do they offer the world of adventure they promise.

Marilynn Dawson

I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Every book is a world.

Gabrielle Zevin

Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant....

Tennessee Williams

Whatever man imagines is possible

Julie Andrews Edwards

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us are endowed with the powers of fantasy, the dullest of dullards among us has the gift of dreams at night - visions and yearnings and hopes. Everyone can also think; it is the quality thought that makes the difference - not just the quality of logical thinking, but of imaginative thinking. And our greatest thinkers, those who have radically changed our world, have always arrived at their truths by dreaming them; they are first fantasized, and only then subjected to proof.

Leonard Bernstein

I could burn this place downAs many times as I'd like in my mind,Without any sympathy For the girl or her motherWho live beneath me

Matthew Little

Imagination makes people oversensitive,vulnerable and exposed. Perhaps it's a form of degeneracy. I have never held the shortcomings of the unimaginative against them. Sometimes I've even envied them: they have an easier and more pleasant life than everyone else.

Marlen Haushofer

There is only one possible road you can take,' he said, 'and that is t go by way of your imagination.

Julie Andrews Edwards

Live each day to the fullness, live the life that you imagine.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination of a place, attracted the possibility of my travel to the place.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue” — imaginative depictions of the truly good life — “we will seek out the imagery of vice.

Russell Kirk

I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Without an imagination we would be irreparably shackled to what is, and never be released to what could be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what's real and what's imagined.

Bob Proctor

There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

Your dreams and your imagination are the keys to ART so capture all of yours in this notebook.....

T.A. Richards

Napoleon Hill said "The Imagination is the most powerful most miraculous inconceivably powerful force that the world's ever known

Bob Proctor

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we "know" that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

Wendell Berry

People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

P.K. Shaw

We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

Lemony Snicket

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.

Edward Albee

There was something comforting about believing in things that didn’t exist.

A. Lynn

If you think of religion as something that offers a picture of something more grand than us, reading does the same thing. Reading enables us to lift ourselves from our current situation to something higher – and better. It expands one’s own imagination.

Meshack Asare

Ridges of muscle on his stomach rose under his skin like divisions on a slab of chocolate. He held her close by the light of an oil lamp, and he shone as though he had been polished with a high-wax body polish.

Arundhati Roy

Texts on a lifeless strings of facts, but the keys to unlocking the character of human beings, people with likes and dislikes, diocese and foibles, errors and convictions. Words have texture and shape, and it is their almost tactile quality that leads readers to sculpt images of the writers who use them. These images are then interrogated, mocked, congratulated, or dismissed, depending on the context of the reading and the disposition of the reader.

Sam Wineburg

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary.

Paul Lockhart

Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.

Orrin Woodward

We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be.

H.G.Wells

Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.

Orrin Woodward

A poet has to be a bit childlike at heart, and in that sense all the romantic stereotypes about poets being "eternal children", etc, are all accurate. They believe, whatever they may say, that art and words can change the world.

John Thomas Allen

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers— most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people— all the more insidious and insincere.

Azar Nafisi

Your imagination will lead you to where you ought to be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The imagination is our final advantage as a species, a place to safely (and happily) explore experiences that are far from safe and far from happy. “Dracula” and “The Fly” may delight and appall in equal measure, but they also gently prepare us, helping us to think about how we would respond if faced with a terrifying seduction, or a corrupted and infected body.

Joe Hill

Gathering your own reference materials, sketches and using your own imagination is going to help you grow as an artist far more than stealing someone else's work.

Bonnie Hamlin

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