680 private quotes tagged imagination

“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” — Walt Disney

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“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.” — Thomas Merton

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“I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.” — Claire Danes

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“There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.” — Jane Campion

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“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.” — Jessamyn West

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

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“We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.” — Jacob Bronowski

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

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“Imagination is the true magic carpet.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.” — Helen Rowland

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

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“In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.” — James Buchan

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“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” — Jonas Salk

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

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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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“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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“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.” — Charles Kettering

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

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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 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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