Imagination Quotes

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. Sean O'Faolain
Reality Imagination Admirable Only New Makes Intense Form Happen Creates Things Things Happen
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. Quintilian
Mind Imagination Critical Promise Gives Faculty Advance Develops Boy Least Who Whom
Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice. Uzodinma Iweala
Events Sometimes Valuable Important Advice Living Imagination Ancestors More Directly Both Mythological Dead Always Important Role Offering Role Often Short African Famous Influence Literary Whether Figures Popular Works Novels Played Humans
Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload. Q-Tip
Buy You Videos Internet Made Active Imagination Would Poster Mental More Invested Had Put Pictures Like Tickets Felt Overload Sounds Hear Wall Get Want Sensory Then Engaged Show Now Album
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions. Dennis Hastert
Time Leadership People World Vision Free Leader Imagination President President Reagan He Free World Freed Countless Empire Most Reagan American American People Communist Captured Millions Needed
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eyes Wait Will Long Imagination Our Poem Geography America Ample
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. Salman Rushdie
Great First Imagination Great Artist Weak Distinguishes Tenderness Industry Artist Sensibility Second Third
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Memories Old Smell Sense Imagination Other Channel More Through Reached Readily Than Any Sentiments Associations
You hear many things, take a little from each experience, and tune your imagination to create believable characters and situations. Dave Clark
You Experience Imagination Characters Take Hear Situations Tune Little Create Your Many Each Believable Things
Politicians have become extraordinarily conservative, but our times require imagination and bold action. Ashraf Ghani
Conservative Become Politicians Action Imagination Extraordinarily Our Times Require Bold
Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking. James L. Farmer, Jr.
Time Rights Liar Imagination Rights Movement Inside Civil Scared Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Shake Shaking He Without Said Hands Afraid Movement Anyone Either Who
Of all the meals that represented British culture, perhaps none captured the imagination more than the Christmas pudding. It was the Victorians who firmly fixed the traditional plum pudding as a festive dish. Kwasi Kwarteng
Christmas Culture Imagination Plum More Firmly Perhaps None Traditional Festive Than Fixed Dish Meals Who Captured Pudding British
Rio de Janeiro has captured my imagination. Santiago Calatrava
Imagination Rio Captured
On the sets of the movie 'Manto,' I found that one of the challenges of embodying real-life stories is the mixed medium of facts and imagination, and how one's collage of experiences colour ones representation on celluloid. Tahir Raj Bhasin
Challenges Imagination Sets Medium Collage Facts Colour How Mixed Representation Celluloid Experiences Movie Stories Found
I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it. Uzo Aduba
Character Walls Build Skin Imagination I Can Something Feels Come Like Real Brain Up Close Truthful Get Trying Far Stretch
She was my wife and I love her & loved her beyond imagination but I also respected her art, the passion and dedication with which she committed herself to her work. Boney Kapoor
Work Love Art Passion Wife Dedication Imagination Herself Respected I Love Beyond Also She Committed Loved Which Her
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
Genius Men Think Imagination Constitute Divisions Feel Grand Reasoning Two
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard
Art Imagination Objects Gives Picnic Without Modern Craftsmanship Modern Art Us Skill Useful Many
I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience’s imagination. Sam Levinson
Director Job Imagination I Feel Strongly Writer Feel Crush Very
To put it simply, I’m not interested in making comfortable films, and I don’t want to crush the audience’s imagination. I want them to feel like they might have missed something. Sam Levinson
Imagination Films Something Put Simply Feel Missed Crush Like Comfortable Making Want Not Interested Interested Them Might
The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide. Martha Nussbaum
Needs Gift Humanities Imagination Cultivation Provide Refinement Innate
Doctor Who' is the best show to write for, because of the actors and the scale of imagination that it demands. Chris Chibnall
Best Doctor Imagination Scale Write Demands Doctor Who Because Show Who Actor
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids. Dolly Parton
Day Library Imagination One Day Kids Would Would-Be Dreamed Never Scottish Helping Hometown Started
I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true. Richard Dawkins
Valuable Think Imagination True Encouraged Very Children Should
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. Stewart O'Nan
Opportunities Imagination Tools Favorite Writer Points Offered Different Fiction Fiction Writer View Peculiar
You spend a lot more time on your own as an only child. And there's space to allow your imagination to take flight. Bill Bailey
Time You Space Own Imagination Spend More Only Only Child Take Allow Lot Child Your Flight
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