Imagination Quotes - Page 24

• The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

  Napoleon Hill

  Doe, Fiction, Indescribable

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.204, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

  Napoleon Hill

  Reality, Desire, Firsts

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.425, Courier Corporation

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• I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Hate, World, Whole

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

  Steven Spielberg

  Party, Thinking, Secret

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Reality, Easy, Hard

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.941, Xist Publishing

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• Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step to the reality of the microscopic world; how simple portrayals of the logic of substitution and combination were reified; brings to our attention the imaginative, neglected work of Williamson and Kopp; and takes a critical look at Kekule's daydream. And it beautifully delineates the essential place the imagination has in science. A rewarding, lively picture of chemistry in formation.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Simple, Reality, Essentials

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• The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

  Gaetano Salvemini

  Jigsaw Puzzles, History, Pieces

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• The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Use, Never Forget, Intellect

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.159, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Errors, Incompetence, Substitutes

  Richard Hofstadter (2016). “The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay: from The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, p.19, Vintage

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• Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

  Wayne Dyer

  Creativity, Use, Problem

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• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Civilization, Gone

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Taste, Fantasy

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• I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

  Jacki Weaver

  Best Effort, Actors, Lively

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Fall, Autumn

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1956). “The American Essays”, p.23, Princeton University Press

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• To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.

  Anne Ellis

  Jobs, Mistake, Eye

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• Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Real, Home, Writing

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• Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.

  David Sedaris

  Air, Ions, Answers

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

  James Beard

  Simple, Suffering, Green

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• If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure out how you put people in possession of their heritage. To do that you have to talk about how they're being taught, and the imagination of community the people who are running our government have.

  Robert Hass

  Running, Government, People

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• I think what music can offer is the feeling of forward motion, also the feeling of accumulation of information, of sensations, of feelings, like we're going somewhere. When I say 'feel like,' I don't mean to suggest that it's not real, but that it's the work of the imagination, which is what narrative is.

  Vijay Iyer

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs I take. It's like a prologue. You wonder, What's going on? You feel something is going to happen.

  Rinko Kawauchi

  Ocean, Light, Black

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