Imagination Quotes - Page 21

• Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

  Abraham Zaleznik

  Opportunity, Ability, Perceive

  Abraham Zaleznik (1990). “The managerial mystique: restoring leadership in business”, Harpercollins

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• Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis of all creativity. Creativity is being able to see beyond what is readily apparent. It is seeing a new answer to an old problem.

  Carol Birch

  Creativity, Eye, Inward

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• Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

  Steven Callahan

  Dream, Ideas, Giving

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

  Sugata Mitra

  Memorization, Students, Resourcefulness

  "We Need Schools... Not Factories" by Sugata Mitra, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

  Charlotte Mason

  Lying, Ideas, Mind

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Home Education”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Hands, Suggestions

  Charlotte Maria Mason (1906). “Home Education”

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• We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.

  Derek Parfit

  Self, Might, Belief

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• The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.

  Michael Meade

  Soul, Desire, Touched

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• Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

  Guy Davenport

  Men, Drunk, Watches

  Guy Davenport (1997). “The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays”, p.5, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.

  Nina Berberova

  New York, Cutting, Reality

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• It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

  Gertrude Atherton

  England, Disappointed

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• Im the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.

  Daniel Breaker

  Running, Sibling, Years

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• my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Mind, World, Creatures

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1816). “Glenarvon”, p.198

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• In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Zest, Rome, People

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

  Pamela Frankau

  Common, Virtue

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• Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.

  Ove Arup

  Art, Engineering, Creative

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• The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

  Jimmy Page

  Wise, Guitar, Six

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• Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart.  Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.

  Robert McKee

  Powerful, Heart, Maturity

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• For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

  Jason Silva

  Single Mom, Anxiety, Fleeting

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• I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.

  Nicolas Cage

  Dream, People, Vision

  "Nicolas Cage, David Gordon Green, and Tye Sheridan Discuss Creating Their Southern Gothic Drama ‘Joe’". Interview with Bill Graham, thefilmstage.com. April 10, 2014.

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• One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

  Harriet Doerr

  Memories, Age, Watches

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• We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Moving, Past

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• I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

  Anais Nin

  Stars, Hair, Calling

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• The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, People, Important

  "Credit where it's due" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2006.

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