My Imagination Quotes - Page 5

• I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Writing, Adventure, Character

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.

  Ernest Gaines

  Reading, Writing, Imagination

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• I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Pain, Loneliness, Imagination

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Other Colours”, p.570, Faber & Faber

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• To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Success, Knowing

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Brother, Real

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me the truth about a figment of my imagination. The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations.

  Paul Lockhart

  Math, Imagination, Use

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• I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

  Lana Del Rey

  Reality, Imagination, Fantasy

  Interview with Felicia C. Sullivan, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.

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• By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

  Dorothea Brande

  Inspirational, Hope, Imagination

  Napoleon Hill, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale “Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" Library”, Lulu.com

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• I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

  John Irving

  Thinking, Imagination, Interesting

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• The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

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• On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn't going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Beach, Lying, Long Walks

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Photography, Ideas, Imagination

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, www.believermag.com. October 2006.

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• Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

  Dr. Seuss

  Cells, Imagination, Brain

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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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• My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an upside-down planet, pineapple-cratered. Though I was born here, I came from the other side of the looking glass, as did Alice, though not alone like Alice. Downtown I saw lots of brown people. Old men on benches. Winks from Filipinos. Sikhs who worked in the fields were the most mysterious brown men, their heads wrapped in turbans. They were the rose men. They looked like roses.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Men, Glasses, Rose

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin

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• Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.

  Danilo Kis

  Memories, Powerful, Years

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• Give me a kiss to build a dream on
  And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss
  Sweetheart, I ask no more than this
  A kiss to build a dream on.

  Louis Armstrong

  Dream, Kissing, Giving

  Song: A Kiss To Build A Dream On, Album: Hello, Dolly!

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• I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go. I am kind of stuck in the middle as far as my life goes, and hence my imagination tends to zero in on things which are indeed in the middle. That is, I don't write about the very rich, who I scarcely know, or the very poor who I don't know very well either.

  John Updike

  Zero, Writing, Thinking

  "Remembering John Updike, Literary Legend". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 17, 1988.

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• The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Farewell, Atlanta, Imagination

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Imagination, Mind

  Song: Everybody Has A Dream, Album: The Stranger, 1977

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• It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Exercise, Imagination, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn't carry over.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Children, Kids, Imagination

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

  Teena Marie

  Passion, Imagination, Thank God

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