680 private quotes tagged imagination

“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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“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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“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.” — J. K. Rowling

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“Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.” — Orison Swett Marden

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

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“For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.” — Jean Dubuffet

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“Imagination is the eye of the soul.” — Joseph Joubert

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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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“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.” — Marcel Proust

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“Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.” — John Adams

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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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“My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.” — John Adams

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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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“Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.” — Arnold J. Toynbee

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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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“Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.” — Stephen King

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

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