Imagination Quotes - Page 4

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.

The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

With a developed imagination there's no place you can't go.

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

The application of GIS is limited only by the imagination of those who use it

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Doors are for people with no imagination.