Best past & imagination Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We invent the past and remember the future.”

“The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.”

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Book:The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations

Source: The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations

“Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.”

Past Imagination Creativity Rejects Status Quo

Author:Ai Weiwei

“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.”

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Author:Stella Adler

“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

“Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.”

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Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.”

Ifs Looks Ideas Past Imagination

Author:Paul McCartney

“In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.”

“So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.”

Believe Long Past Joy Mother Father Imagination Memories Morning Gone Forever Childhood Sunlight Recalls Our Father Bosoms Our Memories Gladness Apricots Joys Of Childhood

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“If time is treated in modern physics as a dimension on a par with the dimensions of space, why should we a priori exclude the possibility that we are pulled as well as pushed along its axis? The future has, after all, as much or as little reality as the past, and there is nothing logically inconceivable in introducing, as a working hypothesis, an element of finality, supplementary to the element of causality, into our equations. It betrays a great lack of imagination to believe that the concept of "purpose" must necessarily be associated with some anthropomorphic deity.”

“What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination that looks forward to the making of a future, not backward to the insignia of the past. Their enterprise is underwritten by a Constitution that allows for the widest horizons of sight and the broadest range of expression, supports the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state, and stands as premise for a narrative rather than plan for an invasion or a monument. The narrative was always plural; not one story, many stories.”

“Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.”

Kind Past Imagination Gun Shooting Fishing Afternoon Cattle Pastures

Author:Lyle Lovett

“The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.”

“I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.”

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Author:Jerzy Kosinski

“To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.”

Past Romance Night Passion Imagination Alive Singing Gambling Intrigue Adultery Venice Abduction Gondolas

Author:Peggy Guggenheim

“I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.”

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Author:Dawn French

“It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past.”

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Author:Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.”

“People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.”

People Way Reason Past Belief Imagination Animal Behavior Moved Making Changes

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?”

Men Should Long War Past Remember Imagination Prime Love And War

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

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