Quotes About Imagination

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

We become what we think about all day long.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

O livro é um pássaro com mais de cem asas para voar.

Era un pintor tan viejo que se le habían quedado calvos los pinceles. (He was such an old painter that his brushes had gone bald.)

La greguería es el género que se debe escribir en los bancos públicos, en los pretiles de los puentes, en las mesas de los cafés, al ir solos en los coches lentos que van acompañando a los entierros, en las mesas de las cocinas, en los fogones, etc.

Al inventarse el cine las nubes paradas en las fotografías comenzaron a andar.

Debía de haber unos prismáticos de oler para percibir el perfume de los jardines lejanos.

Had Shastri been given another five years, there would have been no Nehru–Gandhi dynasty. Sanjay Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi would almost certainly still be alive, and in private life. The former would be a (failed) entrepreneur, the latter a recently retired airline pilot with a passion for photography. Finally, had Shastri lived longer, Sonia Gandhi would still be a devoted and loving housewife, and Rahul Gandhi perhaps a middle-level manager in a private sector company.

We imagine through our ignorance that we derive happiness from objects.

Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!"

To receive the compliments of being a good writer really annoys me, as this has been my perception that a writer as such has no value, it is the readers who invest their thought process, give life to dead words, coupled with their own imagination, thus syncing the content to their tastes and sensibilities, that matter."

You are fascinated by what you're Not!

Your EYES not only see everything around you AS IS, but also PROJECT what you wish look in this world!"

Humans create so much beauty.

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.

horses which drew the hearse, and far more ineffectual. Every open grave I had to stand beside was a gateway to knowledge which nobody other than I appeared to realise was there to be tapped. As mourners dropped earth on the coffin it sounded very much like knocking on a door, and I imagined how terrified the priest and his little congregation would be if any opened in the earth.

Everything was real except her.

The reader is entertained by the journey of another, but the writer is the changer of worlds.

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to go swimming out among the stars?

At [my old school], when teachers stood up to address us in assemblies, it was to urge us to study hard, stay focused, remain resilient, set goals, seek support. If there was a "leader," she was the exception, not the norm. Listening to [the adults here], I wonder if things would be different if we spent thirteen years being told that we were born to lead, and that the only thing that would ever hold us back would be a limited imagination.

I want to tell him that when we were in the camps waiting for a boat we spoke about what we imagined Australia would be like. Kangaroos, koalas, wide open spaces. Then, when we arrived, we were locked up and the images we had shrank smaller and smaller until Australia became tiny patches of sky beyond the barbed wire.