Quotes About Reflection

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

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

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.

Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles.

What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.

It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud

I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while.

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.