“I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.”
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imagination
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“Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.”
“I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.”
“Some stories are true that never happened.”
“I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.”
“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.”
“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.”
“Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.”
“I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.”
“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.”
“I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.”
“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.”
“The imagination is man's power over nature.”
“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.”
“What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.”
“The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.”
“There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.”
“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”
“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
“Imagination is the true magic carpet.”