Best imagination & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.”

Ifs Thinking Children Littles Country Running Black Imagination Dark

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“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

“'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imagination.”

People Thinking Knows Stories Shows Imagination Stores Capture Roof Backdrop

Author:Zoe Tapper

“It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.”

Thinking Writing Believe Wells Hard Mother Night Games Interest Imagination Careers College Serious Pursuit My Sister Every Night Make Believe Playing Make Believe

Author:Sara Zarr

“I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Art Different Courses Community Imagination Imagine Plans Citizens Oppressed Citizenship Something Better

Author:Lee Maracle

“Tim Price has captured my imagination on many occasions with his forward thinking arrangements and wonderfully captivating playing. He is a unique musician made more unique because he has searched and found his own voice. Truly a rare find in music.”

Thinking Made Found Voice Imagination Musician Unique Occasions Arrangements My Imagination Captured Captivating Forward Thinking

Author:Jeff Coffin

“Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can really see. Like you, he has an obsession with masks; he is a seer as you and I are. The common herd, of course thinks that he is mad.*****************You shall see what sort of man Ensor is, and what a marvellous insight he has into the invisible realm where our vices are created... those vices for which our faces make masks.”

Thinking Men Faces Courses Imagination Common Vision Like You Mad Vices Insight Invisible Obsession Realms Mask Accurate Herds Precision Marvellous Seers Geometric

Book:Monsieur de Phocas

Source: Monsieur de Phocas

“Use the imagination to picture only what is good, what is beautiful, what is beneficial, what is ideal, and what you wish to realize. Mentally see yourself receiving what you deeply desire to receive. What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become. Therefore, if you imagine only those things that are in harmony with what you wish to obtain or achieve, all your thinking will soon tend to produce what you want to attain or achieve.”

Ifs Thinking Want Use Beautiful Desire Wish Realizing Imagination Imagine Achieve Produce Ideals Harmony What You Want Receiving Beneficial

Author:Christian D. Larson

“I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.”

Thinking Different Use Actors Imagination Acting Preparation My Imagination

Author:Edi Gathegi

“His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them”

Thinking Feels Looks Form Imagination Strange Ice Symbols Colour Monument Freeze Iceberg

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it's patience and perseverance that get you there.”

Thinking Success Motivation Imagination Journey Perseverance Patience And Perseverance

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“I never wanted to do Harry Potter. I thought it should have stayed as a book. There are some books that should be made into movies and some that shouldn't. Harry Potter is 70% imagination. When the movie comes out, it's going to be such a stereotype for kids. When they think of Harry Potter, they're going to think of what is portrayed on screen.”

Thinking Should Made Book Kids Wanted Imagination Should Have Screens Harry Potter Stereotype Potters

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique, you have to think 'I'm me, I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box, to accommodate their limited imaginations.”

People Thinking Actors Imagination Unique Boxes Bunch Producers Agents Accommodate

Author:Imelda Staunton

“This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.”

Thinking Mind Littles Soul Body Spirit Imagination Sleep Little Things Closed Mind

Book:Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

“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

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

Thinking Life Firsts Believe Ideas Dream Imagination Thirds Dare To Dream

Author:Walt Disney

“Yes, Philadelphia is horrible, but in a very interesting way. There were places there that had been allowed to decay, where there was so much fear and crime that just for a moment there was an opening to another world. It was fear, but it was so strong, and so magical, like a magnet, that your imagination was always sparking in PhiladelphiaI just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.”

Thinking World Way Ideas Moments Strong Imagination Interesting Darkness Crime Wind Horrible Opening Decay Very Interesting Another World Philadelphia Magnet Interesting Ways Sparking

Author:David Lynch

“You can think of creativity as applied imagination.”

Thinking Motivational Imagination Creativity

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.”

Thinking Trying Stills Imagination Wonder New Things Vivid Childlike Sense Of Wonder Vivid Imagination

Author:Iris Apfel

“As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open... Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.”

Thinking Heart Children Imagination Curiosity Anything Is Possible Newness Newness Of Life

Author:Yehuda Berg

“I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.”

Thinking Writing Trying I Can Book Real Reality Imagination

Author:Maria Semple

“I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Persons Doe Real School Jesus Can Do Realizing Imagination Jokes Best Things Sunday Skinny Sunday School

Book:Searching for God Knows What

Source: Searching for God Knows What

“I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.”

Thinking Firsts Children Bigs Reading Imagination Written Imaginary First Love Written Word Imaginary Life

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.”

Thinking Littles Use Kids Imagination Acting Little Kid

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.”

Thinking May Funny America Imagination Stupidity Commit Plus

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“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

“I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.”

Thinking World Book Imagination Talent Weakness Reflecting

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".”

People Thinking Giving Looks Different Age Imagination Pleasure Roles Too Much Written Fashion Style Expression Horror Clothes Envy Appropriate Joyous

Author:Elizabeth Heyert

“There are Christians who think and speak altogether too much about the power of Satan. They think of their adversary, they pray about him, they talk about him, and he looms up greater and greater in their imagination. It is true that Satan is a powerful being; but, thank God, we have a mighty Saviour, who cast out the evil one from heaven. Satan is pleased when we magnify his power. Why not talk of Jesus? Why not magnify His power and His love?”

Thinking Christian Evil Jesus Speak Heaven Imagination Powerful Greater Too Much Praying Casts Satan Why Not Thank God His Love Adversaries Saviour

Book:The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated

Source: The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated

“Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.”

Thinking Want Suffering Sports Sound Voice Imagination Poor Existence Depends Fishes Fancy Convenient Sufferers Sportsman Anglers

Book:Leigh Hunt's London Journal

Source: Leigh Hunt's London Journal

“Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle.”

Thinking Kind May Character Seems Age Political Speak Fun Imagination Miracle International Dare Boring Deny Hearing Dull Liars Fraud Arena Madmen Reassuring

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?”

Thinking Firsts Wells Might Today Imagination Memories Childhood Essentials Adults Roots Our Children Extremes Instance Radical Feds Professionalism Eccentricity

Author:Edmund White

“Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.”

Thinking Mind Believe Humans Long I Believe Imagination Technology Degrees Long Time Machines Human Mind Pace Infinity Unlikely Proceeding Matched

Book:A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit

Source: A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit

“I think whatever is going on with my brain, I'm very, very - and I'm not saying this as a positive thing, it's just a fact - I'm very creative. I have a very strong imagination, and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.”

Thinking World Littles I Can Facts Problem Kids Strong Imagination Brain Creative Constant Very Strong Little Kid Somewhere Else Other Worlds Positive Things Problems In Life

Author:James Gunn

“Part of what we want to do with the Heroic Imagination Project is to get kids to think about what it means to be a hero. The most basic concept of a hero is socially constructed: It differs from culture to culture and changes over time. Think of Christopher Columbus. Until recently, he was a hero. Now he's a genocidal murderer! If he were alive today, he'd say, "What happened? I used to be a hero, and now people are throwing tomatoes at me!”

“Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.”

Thinking Mind Imagination Mouths Hot Metaphor Senses Peppers Chili Chili Peppers

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“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

“I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.”

Thinking Knows Feels Feelings Imagination Know How Imagine Exercise Attributes How You Feel

Author:Larry Gelbart

“Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was the place where everyone wanted to go. Empires wanted to be able to say that they were the first to put a climber on top of Everest. So when a tragedy happens up on that mountain, I think it has a global resonance. Everybody's heard of Everest. Everybody knows what Everest is and what it means, and the significance.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Mean Littles Happens Able Wanted Bits Imagination Heard Special Century Moon Mountain Little Bit Tragedy Empires Significance Resonance Everest Special Places Climbers

Author:Richard Engel

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

Thinking Needs Ideas Imagination Creative Radical Creative Ideas

Author:Mairead Corrigan

“They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.”

Thinking Imagination Prejudice Harm Phantoms

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.”

Thinking Book Reading Imagination Reader Add

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.”

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.”

Thinking Reason Force Imagination Existence Habit Reflection Eternity Lays Mere Rooted Nothingness

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.”

Thinking Knows Wells Children Book Self Literature Imagination Train Warm Faculty Portions Old Friends Children's Literature

Book:Books and Men

Source: Books and Men

“Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.”

“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.”

“People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you.”

People Thinking Should Believe Kind Children Stills Real Actors Imagination Alive Circumstances Life Experience Adulthood Child Actors Magical Thinking

Author:Nicolas Cage

“I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.”

Thinking Imagination Family Capacity Essence Agree Loyalty

Author:Marilynne Robinson

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