Best ability & imagination Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.”

Author:Kenneth Grant

“Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.”

Two Imagination Ability Health Healthy Hallmark Healthy Life Ability To Love

Author:Sigmund Freud

“I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As far as I'm concerned, my biggest responsibility is to my own imagination. We're all conduits. Art preceded me, and it'll be here long after I'm gone.”

Thinking Long Art Artist Imagination My Own Ability Responsibility Gone Concerned Being An Artist

Author:Pierre Coupey

“I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.”

People Thinking Knows Important Young Imagination Ability Teach Creativity Creative Fundamentals Be Creative My Imagination What's Important

Author:Lyle Lovett

“We must learn to recognize nature's truths even though we don't understand them, for some of those truths may still be beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend. What we need is a compound prescription of humility, imagination, devotion to the truth and, above all, confidence in the eternal wisdom of nature.”

Needs Mind Humans May Stills Pain Imagination Ability Humility Eternal Devotion Therapy Injury Human Mind Compounds Prescriptions

Author:John E. Sarno

“We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!”

“Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.”

Feelings Lying Imagination Ability Secret Creation Source Abundance Linked Expressing Feelings

Author:Anais Nin

“Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.”

World Mean Whole Moments Eye Reading Voice Imagination Ability Space Company Keys Ears Mere Saint Whole World All Time Fancy Finest Sage Time And Space Sweetest Wisest Wittiest

Book:Democracy and other Addresses

Source: Democracy and other Addresses

“We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.”

Lying Imagination Ability Travel Brilliant Vanity Overwhelming Bores Traveler Fertility Drivel Mendacity

Author:Mark Twain

“We don't experience things collectively or cathartically anymore. Viewing has become an intensely private, fetishistic, compulsive process that happens separately from others, and that reflects not only our relation to cinema as a space of possibility, belief, and imagination. But more generally, of what could be, of readiness, which is what the movies have historically been about - the ability to act on things and change.”

Happens Belief Process Imagination Ability Space Possibility Relation Cinema Readiness

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.”

May Self Together Imagination Ability Pleasure Grief Seeing Equal Fortune Ill Envy Exceed Emulation

Book:The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives

Source: The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives

“I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.”

Way Actors Imagination Ability Views Audience Surface Good Actors Small Parts Iceberg

Book:Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography

Source: Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography

“Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.”

Needs Easy Imagination Challenges Memories Ability Environment Tools Wine Drinking Glasses Vivid Good Memories Tasting Drinking Wine Tilt Vivid Imagination

Author:Marvin Shanken

“The ability to discern the thoughts and motives of your heart (especially when experiencing intense emotion) is an essential skill for the believer. Recognizing thoughts and imaginations of the heart is a prerequisite of bringing them 'captive to the obedience of Christ'.”

Heart Christ Imagination Ability Emotion Skills Essentials Believer Intense Obedience Motive Recognizing Captives Prerequisites Intense Emotions

Author:Lou Priolo

“We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.”

Seems President Imagination Ability Wife Imagine Human Nature Appearance Seats Thrones Toilets Lofty Stoops Artisans Great Presidents Toilet Seat

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.”

Life War Age Death Imagination Ability Learning Military Excellence Soldier Acquire Cowardice Panic Distinguished Greatest Gifts

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecutionof science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability.”

People Science Passion Next Imagination Ability Quality Successful Too Much Magic Medicine Indispensable Find Me

Book:Philosophical Writings of Peirce

Source: Philosophical Writings of Peirce

“Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man is able to build organizations of a size and complexity far beyond those of the lower animals.”

Men Able Language Imagination Ability Animal Communication Capacity Organization Size Abstract Complexity Lives Of Others

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“I want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue that are not gratuitously violent, that are not using bullets and bloodshed, but are using things like magic and fantasy and enchantment and the imagination. To me that's just all positive stuff. But I am eclectic and I still like to make movies for the midnight audience as well.”

Want Trying Wells Stills Sometimes Stuff Imagination Ability Fantasy Audience Magic Violent Bullets Midnight Enchantment Venues Bloodshed Eclectic

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.”

Way Humans Feelings Past Life Is Certain Imagination Human Beings Loss Ability Animal Quality Terror Disaster Indifference Streams Accurate Intuitive Rabbits Callousness

Book:Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”

Imagination Ability Courage Cowardice Coward And Courage

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.”

Imagination Ability Environment Materials Tools Species Wilderness My Imagination Our Environment

Author:James Arthur

“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”

Reason Found Understanding Imagination Ability Genius Philosophical Aptitude Vivid Imagination

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.”

Men Giving Time Imagination Ability Space He Man Limitation Time And Space Rise Above Rough Times

Author:Charles Fillmore

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