Imagination Quotes

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. Jessamyn West
Work Future History Past Imagination Almost Much Really
Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live. Ada Lovelace
Hope Walk Threshold White Live Imagination Worlds Unknown Further Those Par Exact Wings Excellence Termed Fair Learned Sciences Unexplored May Soar Which Commonly Then Means Who Amidst
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. Arnold J. Toynbee
Overcome Enthusiasm First Practice Imagination Definite Carrying Only Takes Ideal Aroused Intelligible Storm Apathy Plan Things Second Two
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Daniel Bell
Art Technology Imagination Like Exercise Human Soaring Human Imagination
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. David Bailey
Good You Photography Invent Looking Before Imagination Extraordinary Everything Photographer See Takes Learn Because Lot Ordinary Less Painter Things Need
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Derek Walcott
Property Language Imagination Nobody Itself Special English English Language
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. Edgar Degas
Memory Better Transformation Imagination Draw Only Sees Well Very Which Far Now Copy
Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in. Emmitt Smith
Life Dreams Character Game Champion Vision Winner Building Whatever Believe Imagination Top Consistently High Dreaming Something Both Absolutely He Part He Or She Employs She God-Given Person Gets Your Who Reinforce Necessary Started
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. Henry Ford
Man Business Will Imagination See Give Constructive He Instead Bound How How Much Dollar His Little Succeed Much Skill Use Who
The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity. Mary Gaitskill
Long Power Gone Imagination Our Once Hidden Invisible Perfume Armor Identity Empowering Lingers After Subtle Room Ephemeral Creates Appeal
Imagination creates reality. Richard Wagner
Reality Imagination Creates
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. Susan Sarandon
You World Power Imagination Develop Empathy Opens Powers Up Your Whole Start
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath
Life You Creativity Enemy Improvise Imagination Everything Way Worst Outgoing About Guts Self-Doubt
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. Khalil Gibran
Art Silence Knowledge Ignorance Affection Imagination Those Chattering Hands Who Wash Imagine
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man Single Imagination Bearing Cathedral Him Within Pile Single Man Rock Ceases Moment Image
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die. B. R. Ambedkar
Needs Plant Will Men Imagination Watering Otherwise Propagation Both Mortal Idea Ideas Wither Die Much
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. Anais Nin
Reality Try Free Imagination Ways Transcend Them Many
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. Helen Rowland
Man Woman Heart Imagination Vanity Attract Him Stimulate His Gets May Who Appeals
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. Jean Dubuffet
Me Creativity Insanity Imagination Super Normal Lack Psychotic Means Sanity
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. Jean Giraudoux
Truth Nature Law Better Poet Lawyer Imagination Way Better Way Study Freely Exercising Than Ever Interpreted
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. Jimi Hendrix
Science Key Rest Imagination Lyrics Science Fiction Fiction Little Painted
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. John Adams
Simple Imagination Spell Everything Broke Eye Charm Lay How Wonder Hold Which Ignorant Ever Ear Here Luther
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. Orison Swett Marden
Thoughts Imagination Our Possibilities Only Real Limits
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. Oscar Wilde
Art Good People Bad People Good People Imagination Bad Variety Point Point Of View Colour Studies Stir Represent View Strangeness Reason Fascinating
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. Ray Bradbury
Life Me You Matter Will Imagination Universe Incredible Alive Miracle Over Force Another Making Itself Experimenting Forms
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. Thomas Jefferson
Every Imagination Favor Object Only Sees His Person Traits Which Forms Theory Moment
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