Imagination Quotes - Page 11

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

Erotic intelligence stretches far beyond a repertoire of sexual techniques. It is an intelligence that celebrates curiosity and play, the power of the imagination, and our infinite fascination with what is hidden and mysterious.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear

Imagination is seeing with the eye of God.

All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings - anything else that you read into them is mere hallucination, a product of your own overactive imagination.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.