Imagination Quotes - Page 23

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.

Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.