Power Of Imagination Quotes - Page 2

• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Creativity, Science

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Imagination, World, Today

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• Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Imagination, Expectations, Pleasure

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.62

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• The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Children, Imagination, Magic

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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, Imagination

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

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• We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.

  Ken Robinson

  Imagination, Feelings, Intuition

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.15, Penguin

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

  Lizzie West

  Imagination, Want

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• The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Imagination, Miracle

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• The imagination is man's power over nature.

  Wallace Stevens

  Men, Imagination, Creative

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

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Imagination, Bombs, Possibility

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• Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Imagination, Degrees, Modern

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• It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Memories, Giving, Imagination

  Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.30, Vintage

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• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Thoughtful, Play

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

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• All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

  Mason Cooley

  Power, Imagination

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• Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Reality, People, Imagination

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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• The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Spring, Power

  Albert Einstein (1956). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, Gramercy

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• The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a physical verity. We do truthfully experience our lives differently because our bodies are different. It is in what we do with our experience that we are the same. We feel, absorb and examine with the same intensity, and intense experience honestly examined informs the art of both sexes equally. ... The power of imagination illuminates all human lives in common.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Sex, Men

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• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

  John Clellon Holmes

  Book, Imagination, Risk

  1979 Preface to reprint of The Horn.

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• The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Imagination, Ordinary, Degrees

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.

  Novalis

  Mean, Eye, Light

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• Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, Imagination, Perception

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.833, Library of America

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• There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Children, Imagination

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