Imagination Quotes - Page 5

People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting a wonderful new job. That imaginal act now goes forward and you will encounter this pleasant experience in the future.

Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

Sunflowers are like people to me.

It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.

That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.

There are no limitations, unless you create them yourselves. Anything is possible. You are only limited by your own imagination.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

There is nothing more important than developing your imagination to transform your life from the inside world of your thoughts and feelings to the outside world of your results and manifestations.

The best vision is insight.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.