Imagination Quotes

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.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.