Imagination Quotes

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.