680 private quotes tagged imagination

“In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.” — Wallace Stevens

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“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.” — Jack Nicholson

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“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.” — Jerry Gillies

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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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“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.” — Maimonides

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“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.” — Vladimir Nabokov

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“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.” — Vladimir Nabokov

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

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“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.” — Adam Smith

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

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“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.” — Catherine the Great

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“My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.” — Nicole Kidman

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“What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.” — Doris Lessing

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

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“One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.” — Alan Rickman

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“We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.” — Wallace Stevens

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“I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.” — Billy Connolly

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“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

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“Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.” — Christina Ricci

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“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.” — Charles Kettering

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“Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.” — Christopher Fry

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“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

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“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

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