Imagination Quotes - Page 13

• Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

  Jules Feiffer

  Frustration, Tradition, Function

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• Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

  Mabel Seeley

  Reality, Faces, Harder

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• Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Memories, Play

  Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Criticism”

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• The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

  Russell Simmons

  Creativity, Done

  "Five Minutes with Russell Simmons". Interview with John Podesta, www.alternet.org. March 24, 2006.

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Quality, Flora And Fauna

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• We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Real, Psychics

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• Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Harness, Whole

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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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• We invent the past and remember the future.

  Isak Dinesen

  Past, Remember

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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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• What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.

  Edgar Degas

  Mind, Use, Pay

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• Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

  Meher Baba

  Illusion, Ends

  "The Final Declaration". Meher Baba's speech at Meherabad in Maharashtra, India (September 30, 1954), as quoted in Bhau Kalchuri "Lord Meher Prabhu: The Biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, Volume 13 & Volume 14: 1954-1956" (pp. 4544-4548), 1998.

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• The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Use

  "The Art of Self-Deception: An Intelligible Guide". Book by Giles Auty, p.88, 1977.

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• Imagination comes in after we have experience.

  William Morris Hunt

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• Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Conventions, Release, Restriction

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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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• All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Mistake, Ideas, Needs

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• We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.

  Misha Collins

  Limits, Maple Syrup, Bounds

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

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• Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

  William Walker Atkinson

  Art, Patterns, Firsts

  William Walker Atkinson (2016). “The Secret Of Success”, p.30, William Walker Atkinson

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• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Temporary Defeat

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• Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

  Rod Serling

  Mind, Limits, Twilight Zone

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• Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

  Stephen Leacock

  Ignorance, Carpe Diem, Encyclopedia Britannica

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Positive, Congratulations

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Innovation, Invention

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