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Quotes About Imagination

Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination
~ Ed Foreman
Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
~ Zeno Vendler
Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.
~ Nita Leland
When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.
~ William Hazlitt
Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.
~ Dan Quayle
Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.
~ Vanna Bonta
I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
~ Ai Weiwei
Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.
~ Steven Spielberg
There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.
~ Barbara Hambly
I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
~ George Santayana
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
~ Fanny Burney
It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.
~ Don Roff
To me, the imagination is the ultimate renewable resource.
~ DJ Spooky
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.
~ Wallace Stevens
Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.
~ Ouida
It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
~ Thomas Harris
Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.
~ Samuel Johnson
Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.
~ Karin Tidbeck
Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.
~ James Siegel
I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.
~ Sergio Leone
With imagination, we can hold a universe inside our minds.
~ Alberto Villoldo
We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
~ Walter Savage Landor
It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.
~ Tariq Ali