Imagination Quotes - Page 31

Some people spend their whole lives in a fantasy world, and that’s not a good thing!

Keep a clear picture of your goals in mind.The power of imagination is unlimited.

A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination.

Imagination is phenomenal.

Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me.

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

So [in mathematics] we get to play and imagine whatever we want and make patterns and ask questions about them. But how do we answer these questions? It’s not at all like science. There’s no experiment I can do ... The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations, and that is hard work.

Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom; for imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

They spell-caught the sounds of cat paws, the breath of fish, the spittle of birds, the hairs of a woman's beard, and the roots of a mountain, and spun them around the sinews of a bear. That made a bond that looked as fine as a ribbon of silk, but, since it was made of things not in this world, it was so strong nothing in the world could break it.

But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in.

While looking into the mirror, you are saying to yourself: I am the best. Your own reflection makes you forget the only presence in the mirror.

The strong belief can make things out of imagination.But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.

I feel how little it concerns me, everything that’s called "the world," and how grand and exciting what I privately call the world is to me.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us. At certain times it is the poetry of life and the mythic imagination of the soul that become necessary in order to heal the wounds inflicted by an excess of reason or an overuse of force.

Is life a fantasy or fairy tales?

Come to me! Let me take you to a real world of fictions!

When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, “Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end.

Dreaming is easy. Creativity is a lot of work.

Everyone that steps on to the ladder of success must have hope. Without it, no one is able to reach the top.

In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.

Writing is self-pleasure

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him who makes it, and so of the work of the made to the work of the maker... The imagination of man is made in the image of the imagination of God.

Stop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment.

It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.

Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move.

Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,Such shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic, the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;And as imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown, the poet's penTurns them to shapes and gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name.

The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination.

The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind

With newborns becomes new imagination into new wisdom and knowledge.

Possibly there are few imaginative writers who have not a leaning, secret or avowed, to the occult. The creative gift is in very close relationship with the Great Force behind the universe; for aught we know, may be an atom thereof. It is not strange, therefore, that the lesser and closer of the unseen forces should send their vibrations to it occasionally; or, at all events, that the imagination should incline its ear to the most mysterious and picturesque of all beliefs

The closer we try to get to God, the more we will hate to sin in our own lives, the more we are saddened by the thoughts that runs through our minds. I also think that the more we draw closer to God, the more God will honour us and will open doors for the right things to happen in our life.

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is.

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.

You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's.

Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

It takes a relative amount of courage just to get out of bed each day. There are those who are stronger in their courage, and they help to compel us along a little further in the fulfillment of our faith.

I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.

I think when you read a book you leave reality behind and enter your mind, where there is imagination that ignites you and that is when you truly are stuck in a good book...

You can create you different world with your loving one in talks only. This doesn't need to be there but with the heart and true care you can enjoy everything in the world

I wonder if life is a fairy tale!

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever imagine.

For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.

I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known.

Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home.

the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.

When you are awake, your mind is limited. When you are dreaming, your mind is unlimited. Creation is a genius. The mind is a powerful aspect to reality, but no one can truly tell you what reality is, or how reality should be. You can only tell yourself. However, what if you can tap into your mental functions, and truly blur the line to the point, that whether you are awake or asleep, your mind makes the world real? What's the difference between bending the world in your dream, and bending the world in reality? The truth is, there is no difference, when you live in imagination.