Imagination Quotes - Page 26

• Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Children, Giving, Batteries

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• Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Exercise, Thinking

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• In the tradition of Julian of Norwich and St. Teresa of Avila and all the other mystics, we can learn to render ourselves vulnerable to the "favors of God" - those indescribable experiences that mock our dualisms and so saturate our imagination with abundance that they transcend our ability to convey joy and wonder. In the tradition of St. John of the Cross, we can learn to survive and derive benefits from the soul's dark night.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Dark, Night, Joy

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• I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Prayer, Book, Reading

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• There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.

  Walt Disney

  Moving Forward, Opening Up, Doors

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• Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you read the lyrics, there isn't a story being set up for you. You have to use your imagination to get the best out of the songs - if you choose to do that.

  Linda Perry

  Song, Writing, Stories

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• One of the problems with traditional anti-capitalist thought is that it defines capitalism as a totality, which encourages us to imagine another totality, socialism, which we can try to replace it with. This totalizing perspective has colonized the imagination of anti-capitalism and left us waiting for a revolution we can never have.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Perspective, Waiting, Trying

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening in our collective psyche.

  Laurie Foos

  Thinking, Film, Capture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Song, Lying, Writing

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• Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and can end up somewhere I'd never have predicted.

  Imogen Heap

  Song, Real, Vivid Imagination

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

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• Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.

  PJ Harvey

  Running, Song, Eye

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• Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.

  Victor Turner

  Men, Artist, People

  Victor Turner (1995). “The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure”, p.128, Transaction Publishers

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• Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.

  Alice Sebold

  Creative, Process, Reader

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• Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Fortune Telling, Granny

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• I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Thinking, World

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• I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Heart, Doors

  Helen Keller (1903). “Optimism, My Key of Life”

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• Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Persons, Bounds

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.76, Book House

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• On a radio drama I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non white.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Drama, White, Sound

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer.

  Robert Smythe Hichens

  Men, May, Lost

  Robert Smythe Hichens (1896). “The folly of Eustace: and other stories”

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• I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

  Peter Robinson

  Kids, Thinking, Solitude

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2008.

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• I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

  J. G. Ballard

  Doors, Mind, Pressure

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• I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.

  J. G. Ballard

  Strong, Block, Careers

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• I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Giving, Personality

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.115, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dangerous, Dangerous Things, Subversive

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• Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

  Vance Havner

  Heart, Men, Hands

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