680 private quotes tagged imagination

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”— Francis Bacon

“Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.”— Franklin P. Adams

“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”— Edmund Burke

“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”— Anatole France

“I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.”— H. G. Wells

“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”— Carl Jung

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

“War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.”— Bill Moyers

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.”— Ben Okri

“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”— Joseph Addison

“You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.”— Renny Harlin

“Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.”— Laurette Taylor

“Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.”— Ron Johnson

“You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.”— Danny Boyle

“Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.”— Danny Boyle

“We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.”— Richard Le Gallienne

“Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.”— Ralph Fiennes

“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”— Charlie Chaplin

“Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.”— Al Gore

“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”— Baruch Spinoza

“Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.”— Karen Thompson Walker

“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.”— Olivier Martinez

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”— Simone Weil

“Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.”— Emmitt Smith