680 private quotes tagged imagination

“A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.” — Richard Eyre

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“For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.” — Joshua Bell

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“On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.” — Emile Hirsch

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“Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.” — Jack Vance

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“The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.” — Dennis Potter

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“I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.” — Rob Walton

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“You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very a--l about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies we do.” — Dougray Scott

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“They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.” — Margaret Mahy

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“The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.” — Jeri Ryan

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“Imagination needs to be fed.” — Barbara Januszkiewicz

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“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.” — Richard Wright

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“I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.” — Sam Rockwell

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“In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.” — Gustavo Dudamel

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“My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.” — Michael Tippett

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“Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.” — Michael Tippett

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“I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.” — Gordon Strachan

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“There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.” — Lionel Trilling

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“Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.” — William C. Bryant

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“Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.” — Bruce Catton

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“I've always had an active imagination.” — Rickie Lee Jones

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“The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.” — Bill Walton

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“You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.” — Peter Shaffer

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“In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.” — Oren Peli

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“The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.” — Alex Cox

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“It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.” — David Korten

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