Imagination Quotes - Page 92

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.

Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity.

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to get you through Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you

Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various parts of your business, taking them apart, and then putting them back together again in a more powerful way. It’s about insight, invention, emotion and imagination focused on reshaping some part of the world.

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.