Imagination Quotes - Page 66

We invent the past and remember the future.

There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

Your imagination will create many friends

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

The power of imagination is incredible. Often we see athletes achieving unbelievable results and wonder how they did it. One of the tools they use is visualization or mental imagery… they made the choice to create their destinies and visualized their achievements before they ultimately succeeded.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view- that all ideas are determined by material relationships- is the materialist superstition.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

People can die of mere imagination.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.