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“I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.”

Thinking Needs Writing Imagination Western Notion Block Naps Time Off Inactivity

Author:Elliott Smith

“Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence and despair, rather than the hope of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ needs to look and repent of our own fallenness.... Whatever arena Christians withdraw from goes to hell.”

“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“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

“The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.”

Needs Science Imagination Creative Scientist Creative Imagination

Author:Max Planck

“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

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

Needs Imagination Questioning

Author:Maria Mitchell

“All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.”

Ifs Needs Ideas Form Given Imagination Mistake Painting Concepts Permanent

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.”

Thinking Needs Young Imagination Talent Conscious Clever Miserable Usual Young Women Daisies No Friends Endowment Not Pretty

Author:Laura Riding

“Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.”

Knows World Needs Sometimes Artist Certain Imagination Ego Stubborn Gears Circulation Figments Egomaniacs

Author:Jon Pareles

“As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.”

World Needs Looks Real Facts Stories Beautiful Values Imagination Streets This World Spring Blue Ugly Fairy Rooted Mist Happy Endings Materialistic Callous Fairy Stories

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“The optimization of cosmic darkness and of Earth's location within the dark universe that sacrifices neither the material needs of human beings nor their capacity to gain knowledge about the universe reflects masterful engineering at a level far beyond human capability- and even imagination. It testifies of a supernatural, superintelligent, superpowerful, fully deliberate Creator.”

Needs Humans Earth Universe Imagination Dark Human Beings Levels Darkness Sacrifice Materials Gains Capacity Creator Cosmic Capability Engineering Location Deliberate Optimization

Author:Hugh Jackman

“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!”

“We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.”

Thinking Needs Ideas Imagination Creative Radical Creative Ideas

Author:Mairead Corrigan

“Worship demands the far distances of God; it protests against the little, the near, the material. It must love but it must look up. It cannot live without the note of spirituality and universality, if not mystery. The ascension, the passing of Christ within the veil, answers this need. So does a full-robed Christianity add to definiteness of knowledge the outreach of imagination and home.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”

Men Want Inspirational Needs Reason Motivational Imagination Attitude Dance Reason Why Insightful Ballet My Attitude Just Dance Determination And Success Can Do Attitude Dance Performance

Author:Martha Graham

“Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.”

Needs Heart Children Reality Care Young Courses Imagination Willing Adults

Author:Margaret Mead

“Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.”

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“There is a way to again be in real time with the universe, but it is not through force, imagination or manipulation. It is by finding your true Self. When you do, you will not need to manipulate life, it will simply flow.”

Way Life Needs Real Self Time Universe Force Imagination Findings Flow Manipulation True Self Manipulate

Book:White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

Source: White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

“How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?”

“Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.”

World Needs Doe Real Beautiful Force Fear Realizing Imagination Painting Habit Bounds Ugly Dues Being Real Imaginary Projection Free Yourself

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in autumn. The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five.”

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be born of immobility. There is no need to drag our bodies around so much, all dressed up. It's hot, there are flies, diseases. It is enough to close our eyes, seated on a chair in the shade, to float on the waves of imagination. Isn't that what books are there for?”

Needs Book Enough Body Eye Born Imagination Journey Disease Hot Metaphor Wave Chairs Shade Drag Floats Seductive Ambiguous Dressed Up

Book:The Silent Duchess

Source: The Silent Duchess

“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

“I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.”

Needs Mean Film Imagination Perfect Fantasy Satisfying Fantasy Life

Author:Olivia de Havilland

“Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.”

Needs Actors Imagination Elements Tools Observation Primaries

Author:Stephen Lang

“I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.”

Ifs Needs Writing I Can Literature Imagination Creative Majors Creative Writing Workshops Writing Workshop

Author:Vikas Swarup

“An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.”

Ifs Needs Mind Long Play Use Running Imagination Opinion Information Movement Educational Genuine Long Runs Essays

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.”

Knows World Needs Mind Fun Imagination Sleep Know How Healthy Having Fun Healthy Mind

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?”

Knows Needs Looks Doe Important Order Asks Imagination Rooms Silence Students Music Is Ideals Important Things Chaos Release Serenity Silence Is My Imagination

Author:Toni Morrison

“There are three things you need to live abundantly: awareness, imagination and gratitude.”

Needs Three Imagination Awareness Gratitude Three Things

Author:Sonia Choquette

“We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.”

Ifs Needs Mind Real Age Young Opportunity Imagination Succeed Skills Young Age Instill

Author:Michael N. Castle

“What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.”

Needs Imagination Terrible Jackets

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.”

Knows Men Needs Should Different Imagination Situation Psychology Brother Habit Men And Women Constitution Species Brothers And Sisters

Book:The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings

Source: The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings

“Pinball games were constrained by physical limitations, ultimately by the physical laws that govern the motion of a small metal ball. The video world knows no such bounds. Objects fly, spin, accelerate, change shape and color, disappear and reappear. Their behavior, like the behavior of anything created by a computer program, is limited only by the programmer's imagination. The objects in a video game are representations of objects. And a representation of a ball, unlike a real one, never need obey the laws of gravity unless its programmer wants it to.”

Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

“The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.”

Ifs Needs May Has Beens Art Ideas Done Together Mother Values Imagination Memories Results Industry Originals Invention Originality Engineering Fertile Crank Prevision

Author:Elihu Thomson

“...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.”

“Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage an audience. They need to be able to involve their own imaginations as well. They don't need everything thrust down their throat, and I have a tendency to do that. I always have had a tendency to do that.”

Needs Wells Hard Problem Able Imagination Audience Tendencies Pushing Throat Thrust Biggest Fear

Author:Nick Cave

“Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that each somewhat idealize the other. Much is lost when life has lost its atmosphere, and is reduced to naked fact.”

Men Needs Littles Stills Facts Helping Lost Imagination Rooms Illusion Remains Naked Atmosphere

Book:Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to

Source: Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to

“Without technique, it doesn't matter what your ideas are; you would not be able to do what you want. It's something that you always need to work on. It's also important to never forget the feeling for the music, the imagination.”

Want Needs Important Ideas Matter Feelings Able Imagination Forget What You Want Technique Never Forget

Author:George Li

“[While voicing] you have to create a feeling for what happened before a scene, what's going to happen after a scene, and what you are doing in a scene. You need to use your imagination even more and once your emotions are up, then your voice and expressions will go accordingly.”

Needs Use Feelings Happens Voice Imagination Emotion Happened Expression Scene

Author:James Hong

“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”

“The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.”

Needs Art Use Imagination Audience Disbelief

Author:William Friedkin

“I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. So, I think it's helpful to try and give your kids.”

Thinking Needs Giving Trying Kids Imagination Television Computer Helpful

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“While green-screen work, find a way to stay true to whatever it is that it takes to act a scene out, and make sure that you use your imagination as best as you possibly can, still stay loose, and still allow yourself the liberty of doing what you need to do as an actor, and then work within the confines of what is actually possible.”

Way Needs Stills Use Actors Imagination Liberty Scene Green Screens Stay True

Author:Brendan Fraser

“What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours.”

People Knows Needs Years Ideas Next Imagination Poor Greater Generations Planets Ten Demand Concern Crisis Prepared No Idea Fifty Greater Good

Author:Katherine Paterson

“Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.”

Needs Giving Should Moments Imagination Results Draws Wings Proof Experiments Conclusion Observation Our Thoughts Factual

Author:Louis Pasteur

“If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.”

Ifs Want Needs Lasts Imagination Making Money

Author:James A. Baldwin

“In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.”

Way Needs Book Different Actors Process Imagination Acting Different Ways Tension Revelations Good Actors

Author:Yann Martel