Imagination Quotes

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?

Love is based on imagination.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

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

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.