Imagination Quotes - Page 32

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen - at the same time all together.

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.