Imagination Quotes - Page 108

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

In the world of imagination, all things belong.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

At bottom each “exact” science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination.

I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's also in the mindfulness of every part of my life, from a meal that I prepare for family and friends to putting my imagination to work in a garden.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

It was really always about bringing back [James] Baldwin's words in all their rawness, in all their impact - in the way he analyzes not only this country but also the history of this country, the images that this country is fabricating through Hollywood, and what consequence that has in our imagination.

Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we're a figment of their imagination.

My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest return.

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.

If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist