“When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.” YearsImaginationRecordsProfessorsCapturedCambridgeAspergersReciting Author:Daniel Tammet
“Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.” AgeLeftImaginationTeachRecordsTheoryGeniusPhilosophicalInventionPeculiarConstructionVenturePassed Away Author:Isaac D'Israeli
“I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view... If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.” IfsBelieveKindProcessDifficultImaginationReligiousViewsCreativeRecordsInvolvedPoint Of ViewCreative ProcessDifficult Things Author:Nick Cave
“It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.” WorldPurposeSpeakImaginationRecordsPoetReaderMoodSubjectiveOuter WorldsAnything And Everything Author:Kathleen Raine
“There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.” WorldWayMadeWholePassionEvilFeltImaginationSinBrainKnownRecordsStageFiguresStrangeTerribleMysteriousGraySubtletyMarvellousMysterious Ways Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
“I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.” YearsLongHas BeensGivenImaginationRaceRecordsPleasePromiseDeterminedAncestorVividProspectsI Am DeterminedVivid Imagination Author:Nikola Tesla
“For me the idea was always throw myself into different situations and push your imagination as far as you can to get to where you want to get to. I think a lot of bands make the same record over and over again because they're married to the same three or four people. At some point they've done all they can do with their own imaginations.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasDifferentDoneThreeCan DoImaginationSituationRecordsFourBandMarried Author:Mark Oliver Everett
“To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination.” LooksImaginationRecordsImagineKeysSeven Author:Jean-Francois Chevrier