I Quotes
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“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
“Imagination grows by exercise.”
“Imagination grows in the loneliest of soils.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“Imagination grows in the lonliest of soils”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.”
“Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.”
“Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.”
“Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.”
Source: The Lost Princess of Oz
“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.”
Source: 30+ FANTASY ADVENTURES & FAIRY TALES – Ultimate Collection (Magical World Series): The Wizard of Oz Series, Dot and Tot of Merryland, Mother Goose in Prose, The Magical Monarch of Mo, American Fairy Tales, The Master Key, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Sea Fairies…
“Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.”
Source: The Complete Wizard of Oz (Includes Encyclopedia of Oz and Biography of L. Frank Baum)
“Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.”
“Imagination has no boundaries.”
“Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.”
“Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.”
Source: Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected
“Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.”
“Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.”
“Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.”
“Imagination helps us create memories beyond ourselves, and conscious works constantly to apply those memories into reality.”
“Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in your search for creative answers to problems. Imagination "stirs up the gift of God in thee." Through your imagination you touch and express the inspiration of the Infinite. Imagination, in the words of Shakespeare, "gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name." You reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, then you bring it down to earth and make it work.”
“Imagination—here the Power so called / Through sad incompetence of human speech, / That awful Power rose from the mind’s abyss / Like an unfathered vapour that enwraps, / At once, some lonely traveller.”
Source: 'PRELUDE: PTS. 1 2, PTS. OF'
“Imagination improves understanding too.”
“Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.”
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...
“Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.”
Source: The managerial mystique: restoring leadership in business
“Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.”
“Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.”
“Imagination in these works is equated with empathy; we can't experience all that others have gone through, but we can understand even the most monstrous individuals in works of fiction. A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic—not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels—the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“Imagination inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into the light of day. Imagination becomes for you a magic lamp with which to search the darkness of the unknown, that you may discover new goals or chart more productive paths to old goals.”
“Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.”
“Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.”
“Imagination is a boundless sea.”
“Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.”
“Imagination is a confident hope.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Imagination is a corridor to the new”
Source: The heir of the dynasty
“Imagination is a Creative Force”
Source: Life’s Events In Focus
“Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.”
“Imagination is a deadly weapon, it pays to keep it sharp.”
Source: Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win
“Imagination is a divine creativity.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Imagination is a divine mind.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Imagination is a fantabulous thing!”
Source: Bentley's Fantabulous Idea
“Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the outside through the senses, or from the inside through the driving power of curiosity and discontent.”
“Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.”
“Imagination is a form of seeing”
“Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.”
“Imagination is a gift. Groom it!”
“Imagination is a gift.
I've misused it,
Hired it to
Paint my walls
With fear.
I've learned it,
Laughed at
My stories
Of "truth."
I've burst with it,
Dripped my
Hopes and lies
Onto you.
And now I've become it,
Stopped trying
To control my wildfire
And let it spread.
Life is a gift.
I'm. Opening. It.”
“Imagination is a glorious wonder.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.”
“Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.”
“Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.”
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles