Quotes about Imagination

“The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.”

“Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.”

“I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.”

“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”

“Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.”

“I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.”

“Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.”

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

“It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.”

“To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.”

“Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.”

“Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.”

“But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.”

“Ideas control the world.”

“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”

“With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.”

“When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.”

“Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.”