And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia PlathWorks of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIt's like a secret world simmering away [on her imagination]
Esther FreudOur imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles KetteringWe remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John DeweyI dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
Don KingFor imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Maxwell MaltzThe Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
J R R TolkienYou see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination
Lady MorganHe is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart
Washington IrvingAnyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination.
James FarmerA man with a music-hall imagination [on Johnston]
John ArlottImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganFacts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter ConradSome people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do.
Yamila DiazOur thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenLiberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose BierceTo regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Wallace StevensImagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren BacallThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher Some books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the novel Spares]
David BaddielImagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can.
Ingrid BengisReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C S LewisScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark TwainLyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.
Ronnie DioEverybody in their own imagination decides what scary is
Yvonne CraigAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S TrumanI think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy ConnellyLittle men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds
Zig ZiglarImagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.
Oscar WildeWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandIt is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare PaveseIt takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David BaileyHe's still a relatively young captain but he shows real imagination and his fields are well thought out, it just depends, sometimes you have to stop the fours, sometimes you can let them go by [on Michael Vaughan]
Duncan FletcherApathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold ToynbeeFew people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonWe are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Jacob BronowskiOur democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people... The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
Al GoreI have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.
Claire DanesIt's an act of imagination just as valid as any serious competitor, like a drama or the novel [on comedy, that is]
Armando IannucciMy imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John KeatsNeither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartIn real cricket, the player who has developed imagination and skill mkaes the game, but in the one day match it is the other way round. The match dictates to the player.
Brian CloseOn Wales losing 28-9 against Australia: 'No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking'
JPR WilliamsEverything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph AddisonThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw. [He won the Turner Prize]
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