My Imagination Quotes - Page 7

• I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

  Dave Attell

  Reality, Imagination, Life Is

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 19, 2003.

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• Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Memories, Play

  Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Criticism”

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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 never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

  Gustave Moreau

  Dream, Reality, Play

  "The Many Faces of Gustave Moreau" by Bennett Schiff, August 1999.

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

  Ralph W. Gerard

  Teaching, Learning, Creativity

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• The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.85, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Believe, Inspiration

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

  Franz Schubert

  Imagination, Trying, I Can

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• I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

  Brit Marling

  Imagination, Mind, Innocence

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• When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Running, Ideas, Imagination

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.6, Courier Dover Publications

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• And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death,
  My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats...
  Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death,
  Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Cousin, Rap, Sleep

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• I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

  Lana Del Rey

  Reality, Imagination, Fantasy

  Interview with Felicia C. Sullivan, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.

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• I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

  John Irving

  Thinking, Imagination, Interesting

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• When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Book, Imagination, Turns

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Light, Imagination, Monsters

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.

  Anais Nin

  Imagination, Demand

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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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• To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Success, Knowing

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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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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• 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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• 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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