Imagination Quotes - Page 23

• We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

  Jack Williamson

  Kids, Young, Isolated

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• Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

  Jack Williamson

  Empty, Has Beens

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• Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

  Jeremy Robinson

  Kids, Men, Profound

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• Worry is a waste of imagination.

  Walt Disney

  Worry, Waste

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• Wit is the flower of the imagination.

  Livy

  Flower, Wit

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• It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

  Michael Apted

  Movie, Skills, Today

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• "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

  Leo Errera

  Science, Ideas, Genius

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• Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

  Anne Waldman

  Writing, Firsts, Thirds

  "Push, Push Against The Darkness: An Interview With Anne Waldman On The Iovis Trilogy". Interview with Jim Cohn, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• Losing is a habit. So is winning. Now lets work on permanently instilling winning habits into your life. Eliminate sabotaging habits and instill the needed positive habits, and you can take your life in any direction you desire, to the heights of your greatest imagination.

  Darren Hardy

  Winning, Desire, Height

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• There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.

  Robert Hass

  Land, People, National Parks

  "Robert Hass" by Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Vivid Imagination, Ideas, Talent

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• The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

  Bryan Cranston

  Actors, Draws, Arsenal

  Bryan Cranston Answers Fan Questions (Part I), www.amc.com.

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• Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Innovation, Vision, Mindset

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• Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

  Emile Durkheim

  Dream, Reality, Abandoned

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.216, Routledge

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• I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

  Daphne Guinness

  Children, Thinking, Curiosity

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• I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Winning, Games

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Animal, Giving, Able

  "Shia LaBeouf Sheds His Child Image for The Greatest Game Ever Played". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. September 30, 2005.

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• I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

  Steve Lacy

  Years, Up To You, Limits

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• Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

  Henry Miller

  Cities, Giving, Feelings

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.257, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  Florence Welch

  Sleep, Dark, Light

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• I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

  H. G. Wells

  Sea, Submarines, Literature

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• Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Motivational, Yoga, Keyboards

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

  Tom Wolfe

  Giving, Bigger, Slice Of Life

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• I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

  Steven Wright

  My Friends, My Imagination

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• Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Games, Romance

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