Imagination Quotes - Page 20

• Memory belongs to the imagination.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

  Memories

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• You are well equipped with an incredible potential for absorbing knowledge.  Let your imagination, the key to learning and memory, unleash that brain power and propel you along at ever-increasing speeds. It’s not an exclusive path with access granted only to those with a special gift for learning. It is, instead, available to everyone who has a brain. Anything’s possible.

  Dominic O'Brien

  Memories, Keys, Brain

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• Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn’t have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your own life. Work at it, like a job. Money from effort comes and goes. But effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it.

  Rob Lowe

  Sports, Jobs, Memories

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• It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

  Anne Bancroft

  Important, Stories, Helping

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• I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Ambitious, Shapes

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [124]

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• I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

  Anais Nin

  Stars, Hair, Calling

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• This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

  Angela Carter

  Hero, Giving, Heroism

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• I'll not punish you for having an imagination.

  Betty Smith

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

  Abraham Zaleznik

  Opportunity, Ability, Perceive

  Abraham Zaleznik (1990). “The managerial mystique: restoring leadership in business”, Harpercollins

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• If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Love, Distance, Romance

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• Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis of all creativity. Creativity is being able to see beyond what is readily apparent. It is seeing a new answer to an old problem.

  Carol Birch

  Creativity, Eye, Inward

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• Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

  Steven Callahan

  Dream, Ideas, Giving

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Thinking, People

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• When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.

  Jim Lovell

  Moon, Outlook On Life, Working Together

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• My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Book, Framework, Wander

  Alphonse Daudet (2018). “In the Land of Pain”, p.17, Random House

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• A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

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• The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

  Charlotte Mason

  Lying, Ideas, Mind

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Home Education”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Hands, Suggestions

  Charlotte Maria Mason (1906). “Home Education”

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• my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Mind, World, Creatures

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1816). “Glenarvon”, p.198

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• In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Zest, Rome, People

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

  Pamela Frankau

  Common, Virtue

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• I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.

  Nikola Tesla

  Thinking, Ideas, Brain

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• Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.

  Ove Arup

  Art, Engineering, Creative

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• Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart.  Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.

  Robert McKee

  Powerful, Heart, Maturity

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• I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.

  Nicolas Cage

  Dream, People, Vision

  "Nicolas Cage, David Gordon Green, and Tye Sheridan Discuss Creating Their Southern Gothic Drama ‘Joe’". Interview with Bill Graham, thefilmstage.com. April 10, 2014.

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