Imagination Quotes - Page 96

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

True invective requires great imagination.

What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

My mind has an obsessive, neurotic quality, but I also have a very hard work ethic. I know that a lot of people think, oh, you have a wild imagination. I don't, really. If ten people are sitting around and someone says, "Hey complete this sentence in a funny way," I'm never ahead of the pack.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have to wait until I come back to the path. I think there's an internal force that makes a piece logical from beginning to end; I like to tell stories in music that are unexpected but also logical.

Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to main frame basics with profound and thorough thinking while trusting yourself.

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed, I would feel that the Creator had been uncharacteristically lacking in imagination.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

Imagination is always greater than reality, and the reality of a sex paradise is that they offer a supposed escape from the nightmare of repressive society.

They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.

It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

women love with their imagination and men with their senses.