680 private quotes tagged imagination

“If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.”— Charles Horton Cooley

“People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.”— Tom Robbins

“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.”— Susan Sarandon

“Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.”— Rashida Jones

“Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.”— Al Gore

“Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.”— Robert Collier

“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”— Alfred North Whitehead

“Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.”— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”— W. Somerset Maugham

“The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.”— Henry James

“The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.”— Jonathan Sacks

“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.”— Terry Pratchett

“Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.”— Marquis de Sade

“One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.”— Sam Levenson

“Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.”— Duane Michals

“Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.”— Christian Bale

“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.”— Christian Nestell Bovee

“I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.”— Bruce Springsteen

“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”— E. E. Cummings

“For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”— Maxwell Maltz

“The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.”— Robert Collier

“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.”— Terry Brooks

“I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.”— Steven Patrick Morrissey

“I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.”— Peter Nivio Zarlenga