Imagination Quotes - Page 22

And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act of inner receptivity. It is the total person who hears. Sometimes the skin seems to be the best listener, as it prickles and thrills, say to a sound or a silence; or the fantasy, the imagination: how it bursts into inner pictures as it listens and then responds by pressing its language, its forms, into the listening clay. To be open to what we hear, to be open in what we say. .

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

The future exists only in our imagination it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express that can only happen when you and I are willing to enter the emptiness listening in the silence until we can begin to create a future we can befriend.

When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

Know whatever comes to you unexpected to be a gift from God, which will surely serve you if you use it to the fullest. It is only that which you strive for out of your own imagination, that gives you trouble.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.