Browsing Topic Best My Imagination Quotes

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Dreams are more powerful than facts.

On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn’t going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

My imagination doesn’t require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I’m not a scientist. I just read articles that are interesting and that capture my imagination, but I think there’s a reason why there’s so much faith placed in science.

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay.

Your name? I repeated, hoping it was my imagination that my voice faltered. Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.

The illusion of control has to be there, but mostly I’m following characters and the consequences of their own decisions, because a lot of the time they made decisions about what to do or how to behave that I had no idea were coming down the pike. As I would sit and try to inhabit a character, they themselves in my imagination would have quite a bit of free will.

I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn’t captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

What I do is, I’m like a disease that infects real people and I take them over. We can start off in a very journalistic mode describing a character and observing a character – and that’s what I do with a lot of characters in my books. And then my imagination eats them alive.

I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

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?

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can’t create on a machine.

The spirit’s there and that’s not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.

Where beams of imagination play, the memory’s soft figures melt away.

My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.