Quotes by Imagination I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do. Trevor Nunn planningimaginationbelieve I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them. Tristram Stuart imaginationopportunitybelieve Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate. Tryon Edwards strongimaginationmean At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written. Truman Capote notebookimaginationideas If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer. Truman Capote imaginationreasonwriting Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination. Tycho Brahe spheresimaginationheaven You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer. Ugo Mochi imaginationsimpleart There is no such thing as experience here. You seem to know, you imagine. Imagination must come to an end...I don't know how to put it. The absence of imagination, the absence of will, the absence of effort, the absence of all movement in any direction, on any level, in any dimension - THAT is the thing. That is a thing that cannot be experienced at all. It is not an experience. U.G. Krishnamurti effortmovementimagination I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have to say will not do it. I am only interested in describing this state, in clearing away the occultation and mystification in which those people in the 'holy business' have shrouded the whole thing. Maybe I can convince you not to waste a lot of time and energy, looking for a state which does not exist except in your imagination. U.G. Krishnamurti energyimaginationpeople He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death. Umberto Eco creativeimaginationreality Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand. Urijah Faber mmadecisionimagination The creative adult is the child who has survived. Ursula K. Le Guin creativityimaginationchildren There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive. Ursula K. Le Guin dangerous-thingsdangerousimagination Truth is a matter of the imagination. Ursula K. Le Guin truth-isimaginationmatter This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain. Umberto Eco imaginationmemoriesideas For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other and with the environment... I try to apply my imagination to what could have happened and how a little child could have viewed and processed the event. Uwem Akpan imaginationcharacterchildren Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto. Ursula K. Le Guin ghettoimaginationfiction I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. Ursula K. Le Guin imaginationstorieschildren Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together. Valentin Tomberg focusimaginationorder Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined that a reader can jump right in. Betsy Cornwell is a terrific new talent with a boundless imagination. Valerie Sayers two-worldstidesimagination«152153154155156157158159160161162»
