100 Imaginative Quotes for You to Enjoy

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Cecil Beaton

Integrity Vision Will Daring Be Different Purpose Impractical Different Anything Ordinary Against Commonplace Assert Creatures Slaves Imaginative

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls. Archibald Hill

I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego. Sylvia Plath

Myself Ego Discipline Symptom Unless Later Latter Plots Must Record Unproductive Rather Purpose Pointless Merely Knit Also Without Dialogue Motives Than Trying Probe Sensations Story Create Descriptions Imaginative

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective. Dan Chaon

Life Great Perspective Picture Live Gifts Would Would-Be More Empathy Like Another Than Means Humans Imaginative

Most of the creative industries have been deskilled by these really powerful ideologies of punk in music and Warhol in the visual arts. I think it would be great for us collectively to ask whether it's had a negative or positive effect in contributing imaginative stuff to our culture. David Longstreth

Positive Music Great Creative Culture Negative Punk Think Our Visual Visual Arts Would Would-Be Collectively Had Powerful Stuff Most Industries Ideologies Been Effect Contributing Arts Whether Warhol Ask Us Really Imaginative

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. Franz Boas

Equality All Races Would Would-Be Select Emotionally Most Were Intelligent Stable Energetic Mankind Races Present Imaginative Third

An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes. H. P. Lovecraft

Bible Simple King Rich Analytical Saxon Though Composition Vocabulary Invaluable General Poetic Habit Excellent Writers Study Quaint Equal Forceful Cultivate Model James Rhythm Themes Production Hard English Even Imaginative

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges. Meredith Monk

Good Challenges Think Resourceful Good Qualities Like Qualities Artists Imaginative

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like. A. R. Rahman

Music Matter Will Become Own Young Indian Able Composers Give Having More Write Instead Performers Like Enable Sound Sounds Than Just Want Them Create Producers Skills Engineers Film Film Music Palette Imaginative

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy. Andrew Sean Greer

Writing Empathy Fiction Act Imaginative

I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment. But I hated my job, I didn't admire the people I was working with, and I felt that I was becoming a smaller, less imaginative, less risk-taking, less likable version of myself. Andrew Yang

Myself People Suits Job Year Living Bonus Hated Admire Wearing Pretty Plus Risk-Taking Smaller Likable Looked Felt Becoming Version Getting Manhattan Apartment Successful Working Paid Less Imaginative

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world. Anthony Minghella

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room. Antony Gormley

I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing. Brian Greene

Science Think Too Other Minds Say Some Winds Having Outside Come Ideas Sci-Fi Passing Ultimately Hand Up Close Decades Either Place Storytellers Working Certainly Fast Imaginative

KIPP schools would be just a shining example of schools where students aren't just given homework and taught imaginative ways, but they're really brought into a culture of education. Charles Best

Education Culture Example Homework Ways Would Would-Be Brought Given Students Schools Shining Just Taught Where Really Imaginative

My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen. Christopher Walken

Conservative Sometimes Own Thinking Way My Own Look Particularly Linear Very Different Happen Places Different Places Things Things Happen Imaginative

I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more. Colm Toibin

Though About Rather More Never Put Come Wrote Because Territory South Sell Ireland Very Than North Northern Northern Ireland Republic Might Much Even Novel Imaginative

God is only a great imaginative experience. D. H. Lawrence

God Great Experience Only Imaginative

Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do. Damon Galgut

Future Freedom Mind Past Sense Nothing Down Way Though Easy Finding More Weight Perhaps Cliche Than Your Imaginative

Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it's easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares. Dario Argento

Love Beautiful Great Me Man Generation Speak Dark Dark Side Films Side Easy Enthusiastic Horror Horror Films New New Generation Am Very American Interesting Who Imaginative Nightmares

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