Imagination Quotes - Page 39

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things.

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.

Television deprives children of their imaginations.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.

I have friends say, "Don't you want to have a little you?" The jury's still out on that for me. I don't have a definitive answer, but I do know that I can look back on some of the things I've worked on and some of the things that have literally come out of my imagination and be just as proud of it as if I had created a person. I feel like that shouldn't be of any less value. It can't be because it's what my life is, and I don't want to make it smaller or more palatable just because society tells you to. If you can get comfortable with sacrifice, then you are having it all.

He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

Imagine the possibilities!

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.