Imagination Quotes - Page 10

• Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

  John Dewey

  Change, Creativity, Science

  The Quest for Certainty Ch. 11

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• The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

  Steven Spielberg

  Reality, Far Away, Appetite

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• If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspiring, Graduation, Softball

  Jesse Jackson, Roger D. Hatch, Frank E. Watkins (1987). “Straight from the heart”, Fortress Pr

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• Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

  Marquis de Sade

  Pleasure, Arise, My Imagination

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• Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Design, Possibility

  Robert H. Schuller (1986). “Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking”, Jove

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• With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in liberty…We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively.

  Wifredo Lam

  Life, Change, Art

  Lowery Stokes Sims, Wifredo Lam (2002). “Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982”

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  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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• Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Real, Carpe Diem

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.56, Psychology Press

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• Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Blessed, Doubt

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

  Chris Brown

  Wanted

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• The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Time, Noses, Literature

  1849 'Marginalia', in the Southern Literary Messenger, Jul.

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• Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Relationship, Fall

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Differences, Fantasy, Reason

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1845). “Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.1

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• Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• Memory feeds imagination.

  Amy Tan

  Memories

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.27, Penguin

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• Art is the child of imagination and gives life.

  Mirka Mora

  Art, Children, Giving

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• By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

  William Butler Yeats

  Logic, Progressive, Reason

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• An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.

  Richard Hugo

  Acceptance, Self, Self Acceptance

  Jack Myers, Richard Hugo (1982). “A Trout in the milk: a composite portrait of Richard Hugo”, Confluence Press

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• I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Wall, Imagine, Empty

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Mind, Imagine

  "The Reach of Imagination". Essay by Jacob Bronowski, 1967.

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• Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

  Bill Gates

  Team Building, Teammate, Microsoft

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• To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Eye, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• The source of genius is imagination alone.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Genius, Source, Creative Imagination

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• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Moving, Eye

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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