Quotes by Imagination Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination. Robert Genn themeimaginationbears Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened. Robert Genn imaginationartthinking Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination. Robert Genn creativityrealimagination Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for the person whose mind is open to contradictions and well-practiced in free conjecture. Robert Grudin imaginationselfchallenges Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities Robert H. Schuller designimaginationmotivational Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64) Robert Frost imaginationmenboys Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination. Robert H. Schuller inspirational-lifeimaginationdream As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for this other imagination of community - not the one showing up in the market. Nobody was tending to the way we're imaginatively connected to each other. Robert Hass communityimaginationway To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science. Robert Henri imaginationideas Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to? Robert Breault societyimaginationdoe An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic. Robert Henri artistimaginationdoe There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation. Robert Hass landimaginationpeople If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure out how you put people in possession of their heritage. To do that you have to talk about how they're being taught, and the imagination of community the people who are running our government have. Robert Hass governmentimaginationrunning Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination. Robert Hughes modernismproteinimagination Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself. Robert Frost voiceimaginationsong A statement of vision is the overarching purpose, the big dream, the visionary concept-something presently out of reach-so stated that it excites the imagination and chlalenges people to work for something they do not yet know how to do. Robert K. Greenleaf imaginationdreampeople That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather. Robert Frost fateimaginationweather This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease. Robert Kennedy imaginationtimeadventure Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease... Robert Kennedy yieldimaginationadventure If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune. Robert McKee imaginationplaywriting«128129130131132133134135136137138»
