Quotes About Imagination

To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

Imagination can take you Places....READ

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

This is music that will disturb your imagination and delight your heart-a rare combination.

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

When you use your imagination anything can happen.

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.