Imagination Quotes - Page 8

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  What is now proved was once only imagined.

  William Blake

  Positive, Spiritual, Positivity

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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• SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Concern, Doings

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.210, 谷月社

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• Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Advancement, Creation, Indispensable

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• The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

  Lowell Milken

  Teacher, Character, Mind

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• To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

  William Blake

  Bible, Spiritual, Art

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

  Hannah More

  Events, Shapes, Ruins

  Hannah More (1838). “The Poetical Works of Hannah More”, p.73

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• His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, Ice, Looks

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• The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

  William Butler Yeats

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• As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers for the time very well as an explanation; that is, it stops further inquiry. But it also has had the disadvantage of effectually stopping the advance of science, by involving it in obscurity and confusion.

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Science, Ideas, Confusion

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• The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Science, Opportunity

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 20, 2014

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• I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Imagine, Hmm

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• Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

  Corita Kent

  Life, Mistake, Winning

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• Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

  Agatha Christie

  Masters, Servant

  Agatha Christie (2015). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”, p.69, Booklassic

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• Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

  Bill Bradley

  Creativity, Intuition, Watches

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• Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

  Al Gore

  Creativity, People, Political

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• Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Sunday Herald Sun (Australia), January 13, 2003.

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• It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Nature, Creativity

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strange, Function, Strange Things

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• I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen - at the same time all together.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Together, My Imagination

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• Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

  Richard Rogers

  Future, Past, Trying

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• Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

  Rob Brezsny

  Creativity, Genocide

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.10, Frog Books

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• For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Goal, Cybernetics

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.31, Penguin

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• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Temporary Defeat, Waiting, Needs

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