“I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.”
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“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.”
“The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.”
“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.”
“To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.”
“Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.”
“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”
“There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.”
“Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.”
“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.”
“I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.”
“Man lives by imagination.”
“The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.”
“Imagination creates reality.”
“In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.”
“It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.”
“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.”
“A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.”
“You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.”
“Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.”
“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
“I have a very vivid imagination.”
“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”
“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.”