Imagination Quotes - Page 38

• The in­dividual exists only in your imagination. It is just an illusion. When the Atma is one without a sec­ond, when the Atma is everywhere, where is the individual? Only in your imagination. The Atma alone is real. Realize it through meditation.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Meditation, Illusion

  Source: souljourns.net

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• A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in their own imagination because it's still me whether I'm bearded or not.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Mirrors, Beard, Stills

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies and capturing people's imaginations. Go back to 1900: That industry was chemistry. People had chemistry sets. In the 1930s, it was the rise of physics and physicists. They build on each other. Chemists laid the experimental understanding for the physicists to build their theories. It was three physicists who invented the transistor in 1947. That started the information revolution. Today, kids get computers.

  Paul Saffo

  Kids, Technology, Years

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It’s a most natural way for me. I can tell people I can run in a saree and I can do five sequences in a saree. I can romance in a saree and I can do everything in a saree. For me, it’s a most versatile garment…it’s extremely sensuous and at the same time it is strong, there is an elegance and at the same time it teases your imagination…It’s very powerful.

  Vidya Balan

  Running, Strong, Powerful

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• The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There were [in Wilson] a lot of clues in it that you don't normally get, you know, normally you use your imagination or whatever, you get some clues in the script, of course, but yeah, it was really helpful, and I really like the graphic novel. There's stuff in there, there's a couple things in there I really wanted to use that they couldn't get in the movie, but it's definitely, he's a unique guy, you know, I never read a character like this before.

  Woody Harrelson

  Couple, Character, Unique

  Source: collider.com

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• Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Leader, Humanity, Needs

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members of the whole world of human beings, we also needed to connect our imaginations to a smaller unit. The smaller unit was something we knew we could live or die for, as Cicero died for the Roman republic.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Ideas, Fans, World

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner.

  Jordan Peele

  Running, People, Guy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country and there is still a kind of innocence in America that translates very well everywhere in the world.

  Pico Iyer

  Country, Thinking, America

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We are still a pioneer culture in some ways. A pioneer culture has to put all of its muscle into surviving on the frontier and pushing back the wilderness. So when you start to talk about imagination, inner space, and the structures of the psyche, that becomes scary.

  Jean Houston

  Space, Scary, Way

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

  Lynn Nottage

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think movies are expressions of our imagination; they are expressions of our conscious and of our subconscious. I think that movies can be analyzed the way dreams are analyzed, and sometimes I feel that the viewers or the journalists I discuss the film with are psychoanalysts who are trying to make sense of my dreams.

  Olivier Assayas

  Dream, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Shows like Game of Thrones, stories like that, only really come around once every 10, 15 years. I can't remember the last time a show has really caught the imagination that way. Maybe Star Wars back in the '70s.

  Finn Jones

  Stars, War, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote or write in the popular press, like Saramago, Vargas Llosa, and Eco. This strikes me as one way of avoiding opinionated fiction, and allowing your imagination a broader latitude. Similarly, fiction writers from places like India and Pakistan are commonly expected to provide primers to their country's histories and present-day conflicts. But we haven't had that tradition in Anglo-America.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Latin, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It turns out that we're actually capable of something other than neoliberalism and actually we're really capable of enjoying ourselves more than we do under neoliberalism. It feels that if neoliberalism is first about privatizing desire and imagination before the economy, then we're in this process of publicizing it again.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Desire, Neoliberalism, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have to wait until I come back to the path. I think there's an internal force that makes a piece logical from beginning to end; I like to tell stories in music that are unexpected but also logical.

  George Benjamin

  Thinking, Waiting, Stories

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I think I get in trouble sometimes, especially when it's like I need to be easier on [my] kids because maybe I'm a rule-follower now. I'll look at something like the kids' coloring or something and I'm like, "That's not the way that marker should be used." All imagination is gone, and it's just like, "Here's the proper way that we use a marker," you know? Maybe that's a dad thing.

  Timothy Simons

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.

  Vijay Iyer

  Helping, Sometimes, Music Is

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• With films it's not usually that I have a particular character I'm looking for; I'll read the character and my imagination will start spinning and I'll go, "Yes, definitely." I'm thinking it would be nice to keep challenging myself.

  Lydia Wilson

  Nice, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Imagination is the most powerful tool you have. You learn it from all the greats. The Star Wars films are secretive. Anything J.J. Abrams does is secretive. Those guys haven't done too poorly.

  John Krasinski

  Powerful, War, Guy

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• Often I don't read novels. The script is more important, that's the springboard to your imagination, really. Peripheral information can be interesting to read but you can't use it when it's not in the script.

  John Hurt

  Interesting, Important, Use

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• The arts are a green industry with a very high rate of return. This is not money thrown away by any stretch of the imagination. This is money that creates jobs. This is money that brings life, financial life, to communities.

  Robert Schenkkan

  Art, Community, Financial

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I love my work. What's more fun than playing with imagination? I also believe storytelling is the most powerful way people communicate with one another, interpret our lives, share our dreams, even form our futures. So when I sit down to write every day, I keep the fun, and also what I consider a large cultural project that connects people, at the center of what I'm doing.

  Lucy Jane Bledsoe

  Dream, Fun, Powerful

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after a gap of many years and realize that it has been there all along, without any memory of where it was first encountered. But it may have been working away all the time.

  Tom Shippey

  Memories, Reading, Years

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