My Imagination Quotes - Page 6

• I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

  Duane Michals

  Believe, Imagination, Vision

  Duane Michals, Sidney Janis Gallery (1976). “Exhibition of photo-portraits & street scenes sequences: black & white and color photographs with text, text without photographs”

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• Give me a kiss to build a dream on
  And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss
  Sweetheart, I ask no more than this
  A kiss to build a dream on.

  Louis Armstrong

  Dream, Kissing, Giving

  Song: A Kiss To Build A Dream On, Album: Hello, Dolly!

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• The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Farewell, Atlanta, Imagination

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Imagination, Mind

  Song: Everybody Has A Dream, Album: The Stranger, 1977

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• Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

  Tom Waits

  Reading, Math, Reality

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• This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed only piecemeal; and so it was quite in harmony with my state of repose which (thanks to the enlivening adventures related in my books) sustained, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity.

  Marcel Proust

  Summer, Running, Book

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.131, Modern Library

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• Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

  Louis Aragon

  Inspirational, Imagination, Students

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• I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

  Bruce Coville

  Thinking, Imagination, Facts

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• The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

  Emily Dickinson

  Carpe Diem, Imagination Creativity, Possibility

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.662, Harvard University Press

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• Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Reality, Imagination

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• What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Writing, Gay, Wings

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• Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

  Michael Phelps

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Writing, Imagination

  Some Reminiscences ch. 1 (1912)

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• To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Eye, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and pleasure. You have been my obsession, my passion, my philosophers' stone of fantasy. You are my desire, my longing, my spirit. I love you unconditionally. - Sabine Strohem

  Nick Bantock

  Pain, Love You, Passion

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• I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Pain, Loneliness, Imagination

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Other Colours”, p.570, Faber & Faber

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

  Dorothea Brande

  Inspirational, Hope, Imagination

  Napoleon Hill, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale “Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" Library”, Lulu.com

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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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• Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

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• Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

  Ralph W. Gerard

  Teaching, Learning, Creativity

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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, Imagination

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

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• You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!". Book by Dr. Seuss, August 21, 1975.

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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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• The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Silly, Imagination, Mistress

  Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.146, Butterworth-Heinemann

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