Imagination Quotes

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Imagination rules the world.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.