Quotes about Imagination

“Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.”

“I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.”

“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.”

“My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.”

“There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.”

“No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.”

“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

“Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was 'Beowulf' because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you're fighting a dragon or whatever.”

“I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?”

“When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.”

“I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?”

“To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.”

“His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.”

“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.”

“I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.”

“I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.”

“I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.”

“I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.”

“What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.”

“The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.”

“It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.”