680 private quotes tagged imagination

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

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

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“Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.” — Stephen Leacock

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“I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.” — Elinor Wylie

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“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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“I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.” — Calvin Trillin

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“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.” — Anne Sullivan Macy

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“The imagination is man's power over nature.” — Wallace Stevens

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“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.” — L. Frank Baum

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“What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.” — Kerry Thornley

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“The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.” — Alexander Chase

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“There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.” — Frank Leahy

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“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.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“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.” — Sylvia Plath

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“Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.” — Lionel Stander

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“With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.” — Theodore Gericault

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“Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.” — Irving Howe

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“When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.” — Rhona Mitra

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“We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.” — Ariel Dorfman

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“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.” — Janet Frame

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“I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.” — Breckin Meyer

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“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.” — Malcolm McDowell

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“Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.” — Jacques Maritain

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