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“Flood your imagination with vision... if your deepest needs, values and internal beliefs agree with your direction, then you're more likely to succeed.”

Ifs Needs Success Values Belief Imagination Vision Succeed Agree Internals Flood

Book:Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate

Source: Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate

“Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.”

Mean Play Reality Imagination Fiction Interpretation Volition

Author:Yann Martel

“By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.”

Bigs Seems Imagination Lines Edges Wander Going Out Composition Canvas

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.”

Knows Writing Important Young Imagination Worst Advice Young Writers

Author:Joe Haldeman

“You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination”

Mind Imagination Situation Circumstances Creatures Illusion Senses Impression Good Friend Servility

Book:The wild Irish girl: a national tale

Source: The wild Irish girl: a national tale

“The indwelling of Christ is a thought particularly fit for the children, because their large faith does not stumble at the mystery, their imagination leaps readily to the marvel, that the King Himself should inhabit a little child's heart.”

Should Heart Children Littles Doe Christ Imagination Mystery Kings Fit Leap

Book:Home Education

Source: Home Education

“There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.”

Light Universe Imagination Darkness Infinite Cameras Photographer Boundaries Ships Light And Darkness Light And Dark Chasms Infinite Universe

Author:David Travis

“Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.”

Imagination Depth Profession Crafts Release Competence Great Writers

Author:Leonard Bishop

“Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.”

Mean Art Soul Ends Difficult Imagination Students Art Is Fundamentals Technique

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?”

Dream Suffering Imagination Memories

Author:Jean Helion

“Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.”

Way Art Imagination Accepting Broken Formulas Worn Giver Closeness Kinship

Book:Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture

Source: Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture

“Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture.”

Hands Beautiful Imagination Rely Construction Concrete Canvas Shocking

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.”

Imagination Release Conventions Provoking Restriction Inhibitions

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“If you get an image try to destroy it.”

Ifs Trying Imagination

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.”

Humans Real Spirit Imagination Creativity Universal Illness Conquer Human Spirit Outrageous

Book:The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

“Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.”

Thinking Art Body Might Imagination Wonder Grace Happened Taste Stranger Naked Shock Vessel Anatomy

Author:Robert Genn

“Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.”

Imagination Subjects Bears Theme Exploits

Author:Robert Genn

“The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.”

Knows Men Ideas Science Imagination Existence Principles Imagine Conditions Events He Man Contrary New Ideas

Book:The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.”

Men Whole Dream Success Imagination Business Vision Successful Successful Business Creative Imagination Brainstorming Great Vision Visions And Dreams Lateral Thinking Great Imagination Creative Vision

Author:Charles M. Schwab

“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.”

Way Imagination Acting Scientist One Way Reasonable Logical Leap Illogical Best Acting

Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.”

Real Imagination Fantasy Infinite Senses Mislead Unreal Coarse Synonym Power Of Imagination

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.”

Life Feelings Kids Imagination Excitement Disneyland

Author:Walt Disney

“Imagination governs the world.”

World Art Imagination Creativity

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?”

Imagination Temptation Execution Cowardly Valiant

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.”

World Firsts Imagination Happened This World

Author:Astrid Lindgren

“What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.”

World Today Imagination Tomorrow Dependent Learning To Read Power Of Imagination

Author:Astrid Lindgren

“Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear”

Christian Imagination Difficulty Obstacles Christian Inspirational Stop Worrying Magnification

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.”

Needs Science Imagination Creative Scientist Creative Imagination

Author:Max Planck

“Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.”

Way Stills Play Might Fear Imagination Influence

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“To put yourself in anothers place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.”

Real Able Girl Imagination Love Yourself Real Love Girl Scout

Author:Juliette Gordon Low

“Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.”

Should Littles Philosophy Imagination Natural Lovers Little Things Natural Philosophy

Book:Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America

Source: Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America

“I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”

Life Stills I Can Imagination My Own Experiments Satisfied Limitation Resent Continuous Learning

Author:Walt Disney

“Fantasy and reality often overlap.”

Ideas Dream Reality Imagination Fantasy Fantasy And Reality

Author:Walt Disney

“What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.”

Giving Mind Wells Important Real Facts Reality Seems Spirit Imagination Fantasy Materials Senses Live By Cartoon Animation

Author:Walt Disney

“First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream.And finally, dream.”

Thinking Life Firsts Believe Ideas Dream Imagination Thirds Dare To Dream

Author:Walt Disney

“Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.”

Ifs Years Children Grows Born Imagination Exercise Blessed Cease Muscles Pale Vivid Vivid Imagination Children Imagination Magic Kingdom

Author:Walt Disney

“Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive.”

Needs I Can Ideas Dream Turns Imagination White Issues Alive Finished Snow Developing Breathing Parks Wraps Need A Change Disneyland Snow White

Author:Walt Disney

“I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. Though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.”

“The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.”

Real Actors Imagination Comfortable Real Life

Book:Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

Source: Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

“Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.”

Want Littles Character Use Past Imagination Creative Conscious Theatre Stuck Creative Imagination

Author:Stella Adler

“We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.”

Needs Imagination Questioning

Author:Maria Mitchell

“The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."”

Ideas Imagination Creativity Creative Scientist New Ideas Intuitive Vivid Pioneers Deductions Creative Imagination Vivid Imagination

Author:Max Planck

“It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.”

Giving Kind Character Stories Form Enjoy Imagination Challenges Screens Classic Visuals

Author:Walt Disney

“Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”

Imagination Obstacles Permit Power Of Positive Thinking

Book:The Power Of Positive Thinking For Young People

Source: The Power Of Positive Thinking For Young People

“Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.”

Action Imagination Initiative Idle Daydreaming

Book:Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Source: Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind

“Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.”

Mean Art Ideas Ends Whole Dream Waiting Imagination Trouble Exciting Flying Handle Plenty Means To An End

Author:Walt Disney

“I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”

Ideas Dream Imagination My Own Limitation Resent

Author:Walt Disney

“When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.”

Ideas Dream Reality Loses Imagination Fantasy Sight

Author:Walt Disney

“Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.”

World Would Be Eye Past Imagination Color Illusion Delight Nostalgia Warmth My Imagination Disneyland Through The Eyes Past And Present Animator

Author:Walt Disney

“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”

Order Imagination Again And Again Storyteller Instill

Author:Walt Disney

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