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Quotes About Imagination

A mystery is the most stimulating force in unleashing the imagination.
~ Zuzana Licko
When you resort to violence to prove a point, you've just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
~ Sherman Alexie
Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.
~ Julia Alvarez
I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.
~ Robert Toth
The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.
~ Doug Casey
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
~ Napoleon Hill
A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.
~ Thierry Mugler
Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.
~ Anthony Powell
Give me a kiss to build a dream on And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss Sweetheart, I ask no more than this A kiss to build a dream on.
~ Louis Armstrong
The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.
~ George MacKay
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
~ Laurette Taylor
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
~ Marquis de Sade
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
~ Ronald Reagan
If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.
~ Paul Ricoeur
Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.
~ N. R. Narayana Murthy
This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.
~ Matthew Morrison
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
~ Caroline Gordon
Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.
~ William Deresiewicz
Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.
~ George Friedman
Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.
~ Diane Paulus
People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.
~ Gloria Whelan