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5/29/10

Quotes on IMAGINATION


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"A clever imagination and humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds." ~Percy Ross

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning." ~Brad Henry

"A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is." ~Thierry Mugler

"An enlightened mind knows how to use imagination as wings, flying ever higher toward the unknowable." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"As you live, so you are. As you imagine, so you become." ~Amy Hetzel

“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” ~Plato

"Don't let a poor imagination be your downfall." ~Jimbo Henderson, from Happiness in you life: brighten your day group

"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." ~Mae Jemison

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." ~Henry David Thoreau

“He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.” ~Henry James  

"How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.” ~Jeremy Collier on Cowardice

"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see." ~Duane Michals

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death." ~Robert Fulghum

"I think nature's imagination is so much greater than man's,  she never going to let us relax." ~Richard Feynman   

"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"" ~Bill Bradley

"Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God"s gift to us." ~Donald Curtis

 "Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." ~Lauren Bacall

"Imagination is the soil that brings dreams to life." ~Anon via Shadowlands

"Imagination means seeing beyond the circumstance of today to the limitless possibility of tomorrow." ~Lyn-Marie Hick

"Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it." ~Colin Wilson

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." ~Carl Sagan

“Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire …” ~Wyland

"It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes from the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination." ~From The Paris Review Interviews, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69. The author spoke in mostly Spanish, and his two sons shared in translating.

"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model." ~Vincent van Gogh

‎"It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people." ~Oliver Martinez

"It is out of your imagination that the seeds of your success are sown." ~Zephyr Bloch-Jorgensen

"Let the child's imagination soar. And let them learn at their own pace. I just hate seeing grade school kids here (sic) stooping to keep their balance with the heavy load of books and school materials they carry in their backpacks as they walk their way to school. Is it really that necesary? Our education system sucks." ~Charlton Morias

"Let us be aware of our power to create a dream of heaven where everything is possible. Help us to use our imagination to guide the dream of our life, the magic of our creation." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery – celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to." ~Jim Jarmusch

"Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination." ~Oliver Lodge

"One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations." ~Steve Allen

"One thought opens a million doors. The world is written piece by piece by the wonder of your own imagination." ~Julian Bernstein

"Realize that the only limits to your imagination are the limits you put on yourself. Therefore make it a daily habit to imagine yourself having high levels of self-confidence." ~Rabbi Zelig Pliskin

"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them." ~Dr. Ralph Gerard

"The mind is man’s faculty of thinking, reasoning and applying knowledge. It is our consciousness that starts in the brain and is manifested through our thoughts, actions, will, memories, imagination and emotions." ~Team Joey Yap

“The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” ~Wyland

“The power of imagination is the essence of our existence." ~Gregg Braden

"The problem in our country is beyond our expectation, beyond our imagination. This illegal drug [problem] is really bad. Government officials, elected officials are involved." ~Sen. Manny Pacquiao

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” ~William Blake

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." ~Seneca 

"Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind;
it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees;
it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions;
it is the freshness of the deep springs of life." ~Samuel Ullman

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