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There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.
Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.
The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.
Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.
I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird
The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.
I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.
You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.
Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.
One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.
imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.
Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!
The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.
Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.
My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.