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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Differences
Imagination
Respects
Reason
Things
For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
Pete Hamill
Library
Money
Imagination
Those
Road
House
Without
Begins
Public
Public Library
Treasure
In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
Phil Harris
Great
You
Experience
Thought
Gone
Down
Imagination
Lyric
Those
Something
Through
Write
Take
Development
Days
Come
Up
Just
Might
Much
Required
Skills
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
R. D. Laing
Love
You
Imagination
Easily
Give
Up
Curiosity
Get
Children
To Love
Them
Innate
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
Ray Bradbury
Knowledge
You
Important
Imagination
Collecting
Civilization
Facts
Use
Nowhere
Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.
Ray Bradbury
Imagination
Metaphor
Scientists
Start
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
Robinson Jeffers
Solitude
Mind
Imagination
Taken
Traitor
Slain
The Anthroposophical Society is different from other societies in that it will not tolerate any figments of the imagination in its organization but is constructed on the basis of reality.
Rudolf Steiner
Reality
Organization
Will
Society
Imagination
Other
Constructed
Any
Different
Tolerate
Societies
Basis
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
Seamus Heaney
Feelings
Imagination
Sin
Faking
Against
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Simone Weil
Life
Needs
History
Imagination
Fabric
Indirect
Crowd
Compulsion
Never
Because
Always
Real
Materials
Influence
Dynamic
Social
Interests
Social Life
Conscious
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Mathematics
Great
Science
Reality
Opportunity
Confuse
Imagination
Consider
About
More
Arid
Had
Arithmetic
Knowing
However
Any
Which
Requires
Who
Many
Amount
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
Stella Adler
Logical
Imagination
Way
One-Way
Push
Toward
Leap
Make
Always
Scientists
Reasonable
Illogical
My imagination is a twisted place.
Taylor Swift
Imagination
Place
Twisted
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
Terry Brooks
Country
Think
Imagination
Appreciating
Drifted
Importance
Well
Away
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
Theodore Gericault
Alone
Imagination
Brush
Colour
Merely
Tint
While
Produces
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
Thomas Kinkade
You
Business
Opportunity
Challenge
Painting
Think
Imagination
Worlds
Lies
Beyond
Edges
Leave
Lot
Getting
Engage
Skills
Paint
Basic
Four
Need
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Thomas Traherne
Happiness
Wisdom
World
Physician
Important
Think
Imagination
Way
Madmen
Oneself
General
Point
Most
Place
Therefore
Present
Necessary
I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.
Tim Curry
Imagination
Everybody
Way
Respects
Ourselves
Easy
Find
Some
Still
Child
Quite
Childhood
Grip
Should
Peter
Even
Peter Pan
Keep
Grownup
Pan
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Tom Waits
Needs
Man
Reality
Imagination
Like
Blind
Blind Man
Bulb
Man Needs
Cane
All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
Tommy Lee Jones
Life
Creative
My Life
Important
Living
Imagination
All My Life
Has-Been
See
Had
Most
Most Important Thing
Make
Important Thing
Educated
Been
Accordingly
Privilege
The Most Important
Creative Life
Grow
Lived
Thing
I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.
Tony DiTerlizzi
Me
Own
Imagination
Kid
My Own
Both
Inspired
Read
Readers
Always
Doing
Being
Stories
Loved
Ignite
Enjoying
Imaginations
I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.
Tristram Stuart
Christmas
Good
Food
Opportunity
Believe
Imagination
Too
Ways
Rather
Kitchen
Throw
Simply
Up
Leftovers
Than
Little
Them
Use
Bin
Away
Million
Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.
Varg Vikernes
Music
Dreams
Imagination
Inspires
Contemplation
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
Vladimir Nabokov
Life
Enjoy Life
Too Much
Enjoy
Imagination
Too
Immature
Immortal
Delight
Supreme
Limited
Order
Much
Should
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Washington Irving
Heart
Imagination
Spell
He
True
Senses
Whose
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
William Irwin Thompson
Generation
Karma
Feeling
Thinking
Imagination
Alienated
Unconscious
Divorced
Reflected
Process
Actions
Expressed
Conscious
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