If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.

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

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 is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

Today there is no greater force in the molding of the North American mind than the invasion of the imagination by the visual media.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

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