My Imagination Quotes - Page 6

• I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

  Gustave Moreau

  Dream, Reality, Play

  "The Many Faces of Gustave Moreau" by Bennett Schiff, August 1999.

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• The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Silly, Imagination, Mistress

  Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.146, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Grandmother, Imagination, Identity

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• At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever came into my mind first should be rejected in favour of better ideas. I learned that my imagination Wasn’t ‘good’ enough. I learned that the first idea was unsatisfactory because it was (1) psychotic; (2) obscene; (3) unoriginal. The truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

  Keith Johnstone

  School, Ideas, Imagination

  Keith Johnstone (2017). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Writing, Opportunity, Play

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• What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Imagination, Understanding

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• If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wind, Imagination, Purpose

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.252, Penguin

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• My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Stars, Imagination, World

  Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)”, p.2834, Delphi Classics

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• The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What delight this is I cannot tell!

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Thinking, Long, Imagination

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hans Mersmann (1928). “Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

  Richard Russo

  Memories, Book, Thinking

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• For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other and with the environment... I try to apply my imagination to what could have happened and how a little child could have viewed and processed the event.

  Uwem Akpan

  Children, Character, Imagination

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Book, Imagination, Turns

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  Kate Atkinson

  Children, Reading, Reality

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• How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who speaks-who exercises a right that he, by his speech, denies. Can liberty go further than that? Is there any toleration possible beyond the liberty to speak against liberty-the real believer in free speech allowing others to speak against the right to speak?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Exercise, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1889). “The Limitations of Toleration: A Discussion Between Robert G. Ingersoll, Frederic R. Coudert, Stewart L. Woodford, Before the Nineteenth Century Club, of New York, at the Metropolitan Opera House”

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• As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.

  David Cobley

  Real, Boys, Imagination

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• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

  Oscar Wilde

  Imagination Creativity, Consistency, Oscars

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946)

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• I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Real, Imagination, World

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

  Dave Attell

  Reality, Imagination, Life Is

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 19, 2003.

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• For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Come, enter into my imagination and see me as I truly am.

  Dan John

  Imagination

  Dan John (2009). “Never Let Go”, p.190, On Target Publications

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• I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

  Richard Armitage

  Doors, Imagination, Childhood

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Temporary Defeat, Imagination, Waiting

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• When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Running, Ideas, Imagination

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.6, Courier Dover Publications

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• And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death,
  My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats...
  Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death,
  Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Cousin, Rap, Sleep

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• I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.

  Nikola Tesla

  Thinking, Ideas, Imagination

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