680 private quotes tagged imagination

“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” — Duane Michals

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“Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.” — Henry Miller

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“I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.” — Nathan Fillion

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“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.” — George Jean Nathan

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“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.” — Paul Gauguin

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“I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.” — Imran Khan

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“Some stories are true that never happened.” — Elie Wiesel

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“I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.” — Simon Pegg

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“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.” — Brian Tracy

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“Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.” — Gilbert Parker

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“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.” — William Hazlitt

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“I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.” — Chris Brown

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“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.” — Joseph Joubert

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“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.” — James Russell Lowell

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“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.” — Edward Hopper

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“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” — Jessamyn West

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“One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.” — Joseph Joubert

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“It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.” — Florence Welch

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“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.” — Lauren Bacall

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“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.” — Stephen Covey

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“The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.” — Steven Spielberg

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

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“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.” — Lily Tomlin

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“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

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

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