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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.
Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
Whatever we fix our thoughts upon or steadily focus our imagination upon, that is what we attract.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.
It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.
I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.
Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.
I grew up with interesting and funny people. We made our own fun. You had to use your imagination.
As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.
It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.
Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.
Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.
The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.
Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?
The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.
We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.
Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.
Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.
Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.