Imagination Quotes - Page 31

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

One of the greatest assets you have is your imagination.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

Education is a holistic endeavor that involves the whole person, including our bodies, in a process of formation that aims our desires, primes our imagination, and orients us to the world - all before we ever start 'thinking' about it

If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.

Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

You are a creator. You create with your every thought...anything you can imagine is yours to be, do or have.

Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth, wisdom and beauty, as well as energy and imagination. Our highest satisfaction comes from a sense of conscious union with this invisible Life. All human endeavor is an attempt to get back to first principles, to find such an inward wholeness that all sense of fear, doubt and uncertainty vanishes.

You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.