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  You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

  William Blake

  Real, Writing, Artist

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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• People can die of mere imagination.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  People, Literature, Anticipation

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1956). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Play, Creative

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Believe, Belief

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

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• Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Memories, Powerful

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• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hope, Laughter, Grief

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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• What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

  Rollo May

  Art, What If, Experience

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• The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Thinking, Mind

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

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• Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

  Charles Churchill

  Doctors, Evil, Flow

  The Prophecy of Famine (1763)

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• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Spiritual, Art

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2919, e-artnow

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• If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

  Robert Duvall

  Inspirational, Kind, Daydreaming

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Educational, Knowledge

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• The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Money, Luxury, Greed

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

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• The imagination is man's power over nature.

  Wallace Stevens

  Men, Creative, Positive Thoughts

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.260, Vintage

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• Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.

  Maurice Sendak

  Writing, Rabbits, Stories

  Maurice Sendak, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Science

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

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• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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• If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

  George Orwell

  Time, Freedom, Future

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• I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

  Simon Pegg

  Lying, Zombie, Bed

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

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• The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

  Wallace Stevens

  Force, Forces Of Nature

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

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• Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspiration, Science, Artist

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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