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Quotes About Inspiration

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Imagination is the beginning of reality.
~ Jim Rohn
Imagination governs the world.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
What year is it in your imagination?
~ Lynda Barry, What It Is
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
~ Sean O Faolain
Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
~ Franz Grillparzer
Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
~ Bill Gates
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.
~ Rob Brezsny
Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.
~ Wallace Stevens
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
~ Livy
The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.
~ Meg Rosoff
The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
~ Brenda Ueland
You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.
~ Cornell Woolrich
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.
~ Jean Helion
Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
~ Agatha Christie
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
~ Martha Graham
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
~ Oscar Wilde
Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Imagination is the air of mind.
~ Philip James Bailey
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
~ Ariel Dorfman
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
~ Jasper Johns
Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination
~ Stephenie Meyer