Quotes About Imagination

Live the life you've dreamed.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I've made a picture of the world. It may be right. It may be wrong. But for me it is very real ...

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

To see a Woman you love in Distress; to be unable to relieve her, and at the same Time to reflect that you have brought her into this Situation, is, perhaps, a Curse of which no Imagination can represent the Horrors to those who have not felt it.

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

I I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

It's easier to imagine the death of the planet than it is to imagine the death of capitalism.

A dream is a kind of nocturnal drama to which the only price of admission is falling asleep.

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

I caught him, yes, I held him—it may be imagined with what passion; but at the end of a minute I began to feel what it truly was that I held. We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

Richard Dyer (1985) tells us that entertainment embodies "what utopia would feel like rather than how it would be organised.

Thou art the book,The library whereon I look.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.