Quotes by Imagination The thing about California is that it's kind of a dream, and I started to feel like I was living in a dream. I still feel like that. Because of that I think I've been able to realize a lot of things that were just ideas. When I was living in New York City, it's such a rat race, it's so competitive and everything is so concrete and in your face all the time. If you're like, "I'm gonna be a writer!" Everybody's like, "Yeah, you and all the other assholes on the subway." There isn't a lot of space for the detached, free-floating movement of the imagination. Ottessa Moshfegh imaginationdreamthinking Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice. Ove Arup engineeringimaginationart Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest. Ouida imaginationculturemoving Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination. Oscar Wilde common-senseimaginationcommon There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold. Oprah Winfrey greatervisionimagination Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful. Oprah Winfrey imaginationuseideas It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view. Padraic Colum imaginationviewschildren Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination. Paloma Faith too-muchimaginationsometimes I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible. Oscar Wilde imaginationinspirationalbelieve the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better. Pamela Frankau virtueimaginationcommon You're not limited by your circumstances only by your imagination. Paris Barclay imaginationcircumstances Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations? Pascal Mercier shadowimaginationpeople Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination. Parker J. Palmer imaginationdoefiction What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination? Pascal Mercier parentimaginationlittles …Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch. Pat Conroy imaginationperfectwater Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God. Paramahansa Yogananda realimaginationmind Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored. Patricia A. McKillip goldenimaginationsleep Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice. Patricia A. McKillip imaginationdreamwriting Imagination is best fed by reality, an odd diet for something nonexistent there are few details of daily life and its broad range of emotional context that can't be transformed into food for the imagination. Patricia A. McKillip emotionalimaginationreality [Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it grow larger and noisier. Patricia A. McKillip strangemomentsimagination«114115116117118119120121122123124»
