My Imagination Quotes - Page 7

• I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two hours, but reclaiming it afterward wasn't hard at all.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Two, Imagination, Feelings

  Review of "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones", Salon.com, 2002.

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• When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Moving, Thinking, Imagination

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• Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Lying, Believe

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• The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Father, Imagination, Figures

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• Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Dwelling, Imagination

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Art, Reality

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires”, p.23, Hay House, Inc

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• Do not become the slave of your model.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Slave, Quench, Models

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.9, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Rivers, Water

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• The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Imagination, May, Imaginary

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• My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Passion, Imagination, People

  "Failure to Launch: When Beauty Fades". www.elle.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words. So, writing essays busts my arse because the art is in addressing the subject. I find it really difficult and monstrously time-consuming. In an essay I need to employ my imagination but it's indentured in a way it's not when I'm free to make everything up.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Writing, School

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

  Brit Marling

  Reality, Imagination, Way

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mom, Running, Oil

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• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Spiritual, Art

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2919, e-artnow

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• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Carpe Diem, Imagination Creativity

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

  Marquis de Sade

  Mean, Imagination, Joy

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• I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Imagination, Bombay

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• The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, Philosophical, Reality

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• My imagination is a twisted place.

  Taylor Swift

  Imagination, Twisted

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• After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

  Bill Ayers

  Thinking, Imagination, Guy

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

  Tom Waits

  Reality, Men, Imagination

  "Tom Waits Spills the Beans to Tom Waits". Interview with Joan Anderman, www.boston.com. May 22, 2008.

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• People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

  Steven Wright

  Thinking, Trying Something New, Creating

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• I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

  Steven Wright

  Grateful, Careers, Imagination

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• I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

  Steven Wright

  Imagination, My Friends

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