Quotes about Imagination

“My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.”

“Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city.”

“The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.”

“For me, imagination is more important in climbing than muscle or daredevil antics.”

“Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.”

“I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.”

“Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.”

“The Anthroposophical Society is different from other societies in that it will not tolerate any figments of the imagination in its organization but is constructed on the basis of reality.”

“I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.”

“I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.”

“Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.”

“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.”

“The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.”

“I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.”

“Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!”

“There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.”

“Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.”

“In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.”

“As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.”

“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.”

“The human race is governed by its imagination.”