Imagination Quotes - Page 25

• The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Break Out, Boxes, Shackles

  Jonah Lehrer (2010). “How We Decide”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

  Albert Einstein

  Important

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• In the tradition of Julian of Norwich and St. Teresa of Avila and all the other mystics, we can learn to render ourselves vulnerable to the "favors of God" - those indescribable experiences that mock our dualisms and so saturate our imagination with abundance that they transcend our ability to convey joy and wonder. In the tradition of St. John of the Cross, we can learn to survive and derive benefits from the soul's dark night.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Dark, Night, Joy

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• Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.

  Victor Turner

  Men, Artist, People

  Victor Turner (1995). “The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure”, p.128, Transaction Publishers

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• Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.

  PJ Harvey

  Running, Song, Eye

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• Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and can end up somewhere I'd never have predicted.

  Imogen Heap

  Song, Real, Vivid Imagination

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

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• Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Fortune Telling, Granny

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• When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

  Dolly Parton

  Kids, One Day, Library

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• Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Reading, Use

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• I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage mode, this was always clear to me. Personal imaginations blend into each other and create our visual cultures. No one is a neutral observer of this field.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Meaningful, People, Culture

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• Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want and be who we want to be.

  Lizzie West

  Want, Power Of Imagination

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• You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Silly, Should Have

  Mark Twain (2014). “The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories”, p.180, Diderot Publishing

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• Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.

  Alice Sebold

  Creative, Process, Reader

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• Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Children, Responsibility, Parent

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• I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Thinking, World

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• There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

  Roald Dahl

  Compare, Knows, Pure

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• When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle to our allegedly preordained destiny out there among the stars, all that means is that they have a single story wedged into their imagination so tightly that mere reality can't shake it loose.

  John Michael Greer

  Stars, Mean, Reality

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• Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Children, Giving, Batteries

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• There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.

  Walt Disney

  Moving Forward, Opening Up, Doors

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• When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening in our collective psyche.

  Laurie Foos

  Thinking, Film, Capture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you read the lyrics, there isn't a story being set up for you. You have to use your imagination to get the best out of the songs - if you choose to do that.

  Linda Perry

  Song, Writing, Stories

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• Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Persons, Bounds

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.76, Book House

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• One of the problems with traditional anti-capitalist thought is that it defines capitalism as a totality, which encourages us to imagine another totality, socialism, which we can try to replace it with. This totalizing perspective has colonized the imagination of anti-capitalism and left us waiting for a revolution we can never have.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Perspective, Waiting, Trying

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Heart, Doors

  Helen Keller (1903). “Optimism, My Key of Life”

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• On a radio drama I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non white.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Drama, White, Sound

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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