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Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.
To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination.
One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.
It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.
To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.
All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.
You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose.
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.
Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.
That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.
To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.
No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.
Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect.
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.
Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.
We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.
But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.
Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.
All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.
Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.