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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine
People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.
You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!
... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.
If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.
Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
The Khmer Rouge can't destroy me. I still have my imagination and am capable of making films. I am not locked up.
Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.
Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things
The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
One of the amazing things about September 11 is that we lacked the imagination to connect the dots and foresee it.
If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.
The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.
May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.
Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.
I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.
It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.