Imagination Quotes - Page 12

• Curiosity is the main energy.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Curiosity, Energy

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• What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

  Nancy Hale

  Inspirational, Men, One Day

  Nancy Hale (1977). “The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing”, Greenwood Press

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• Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Conventions, Release, Restriction

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• We invent the past and remember the future.

  Isak Dinesen

  Past, Remember

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• The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

  Wallace Stevens

  Real, Vitality, Loses

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.6, Vintage

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• Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

  Wallace Stevens

  Mind, Possibility, Power Of The Mind

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.136, Vintage

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• The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Giving, Soar

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Quality, Flora And Fauna

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• We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Admiration, Live By, Sentiments

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• The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire.

  John Landis Mason

  Art, Fire, Light

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• The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Eye, Arriving

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• Consider everything an experiment.

  Corita Kent

  Experiments, Productivity

  Corita Kent, Corita (1992). “Learning by Heart”, Bantam

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• Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Poetry, Shadow, Casts

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Happiness, Keys, Life Is

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Life, Advertising, Resurrection

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• The key to life is imagination.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Life, Keys, Life Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

  Jules Feiffer

  Frustration, Tradition, Function

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• The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Real, Creativity

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• There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

  Charles Kettering

  Leadership, Inspiration, Science

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• There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

  Frank Leahy

  Life, Nfl, Shortcuts

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• Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Forever, Censorship In Books

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• The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Civilization, Secret

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.96

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• One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

  Stella Adler

  Acting, Way, Scientist

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.71, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

  George Meredith

  Love, Love Is, Disaster

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• Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Would Be, Arms

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

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