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Quotes About Imagination

We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.
~ John Ralston Saul
Art degraded, Imagination denied.
~ William Blake
Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
~ Cory Booker
Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
~ Napoleon Hill
Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity.
~ Paul McCabe
I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.
~ John Noble
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.
~ Jerome Ravetz
To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.
~ Jane Austen
...thinking from the end causes me to behave as if all that I'd like to create is already here. My credo is: Imagine myself to be and I shall be, and it's an image that I keep with me at all times.
~ Wayne Dyer
You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.
~ Charles Keating, Jr.
Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.
~ Carolyn Wells
Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
~ Yvonne Craig
Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.
~ Terence McKenna
I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.
~ J. G. Ballard
Imagination is the voice of the daring.
~ Henry Miller
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
~ Gloria Steinem
Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.
~ Blaise Pascal
Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
~ Anais Nin
Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to get you through Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you
~ Melissa Etheridge
We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.
~ Joshua Ferris
In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.
~ Derek Ibbotson
The dreamer is the whole dream. For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives, our business and our relationships as a constant unfolding.
~ Tim Girvin