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“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

“The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression – by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.”

“God's highest gifts--talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, power--they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure that it is by that which is highest in you that you may be lost.”

May God Feelings Lost Heaven Imagination Hell Talent Possibility Highest Lowest

Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

“Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.”

Ifs Art Soul Country Desire Imagination Secret Talent Conversation Absence Welcome France Discussion Remedy Other Countries Politeness Either Or

Author:Madame de Stael

“Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.”

People Firsts Helping Imagination Talent Criticism Helping Others Sensitive Orthodox Modest Murderer Helping Other People

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.”

Wells Eye Jobs Used Artist Turns Imagination Mistake Brain Talent Poet Politician Cooking Fighter Cooks Empires Prize Assets Cleverness Builder

Author:Anne Ellis

“Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.”

Energy Imagination Talent Genius Higher Intellectual Fancy Corresponding Complement

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.”

Want Shows Certain Imagination Audience Talent Type Individuality Individualism Truthful Predecessors Being Truthful Replicate

Author:Renny Harlin

“Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined that a reader can jump right in. Betsy Cornwell is a terrific new talent with a boundless imagination.”

World Humans Two Imagination Rich Mystery Talent Reader Exploration Tides Terrific Boundless Two Worlds New Talent

Author:Valerie Sayers

“It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.”

Stories Today Actors Imagination Five Talent Directors Skills Crafts Movie Seconds Filmmaking Compelling Innovative Format

Author:Michael Apted

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)”

Men Children Reading Loses Imagination Wonder Fantasy Talent Moon Method Pity Conclusion Steady Status Quo Absorbing

Author:Albert Einstein