Quotes About Imagination

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

volver a ver reverdecer la fe de ser y creer en crear y croar y croar ante todo ende o duende visiblemente real o inexistente

Aunque ellos mismos lo ignoren, ningún creador escribe para los otros, ni para sí mismo, ni mucho menos para satisfacer un anhelo de creación, sino porque no puede dejar de escribir.

No me es posible ni tan siquiera imaginar que pueda hacerse el amor más que volando.

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour ' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

La bellezza della fotografia è andare alla ricerca di immagini che non esistono ancora e dare loro un senso.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Love is based on imagination.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre.

However, this Land of Lotus Blossoms does not exist outside us.

Literature can only imagine hell. For us, the rainy season was a living hell. The epic poets of Hindi have not even touched upon the terrible sufferings of the villages. What a monstrous truth that is.

Otkako sam u snu vidjela ?ovjeka kojega ljubim, otada sam po?ela voljeti svoje snove.

When I grow up, I am going to write for children — and grownups that haven't grown up too much — all the earth-songs I now do hear.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Everything in your world is created by what you think.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

The writer who shuts himself up in a room and first goes on a journey inside himself will, over the years, discover literature's eternal rule: he must have the artistry to tell his own stories as if they were other people's stories, and to tell other people's stories as if they were his own, for this is what literature is.

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!