Imagination Quotes - Page 63

What makes America great is in our imagination, not in memorization. We are not a memorization-fixated culture. We can't compete with the Chinese and Japanese in memorization. Where we have been competitive is in creativity.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.

Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as if you were him or her. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.

The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

Without design thinking, the only sane response to a problem is to make a smaller, "safer" move. Smaller moves don't get you very far. They key is to let out the leash on imagination, but not take it off the leash. Imagination is the only path to innovation. It's a good example of something that humans do better than machines.

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.