Quotes by Imagination I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination. W. A. Criswell imaginationbelievereligion When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past. Vladimir Nabokov imaginationtryingpast Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada. Voltaire savagesimaginationplay There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. Voltaire imaginationmathscience There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. Voltaire imaginationmathscience Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer. W. Edwards Deming innovationvisionimagination New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction. W. Edwards Deming errorsbusinessimagination Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down. W. P. Kinsella imaginationwritinginteresting If I can wheedle W. S. Gilbert why-notknivesimagination When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because our imagination is not touched. One can begin to reason only when a clear picture has been formed in the imagination. Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination. W. W. Sawyer imaginationteachingeducation Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination. W. W. Sawyer imaginationteachingeducation These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos. Wadah Khanfar balanceimaginationtrying Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders. Voltaire best-loveimaginationlove-is All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman. W. H. Auden qualityimaginationleadership A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience. W. Somerset Maugham imaginationsheeporder Imagination grows by exercise. W. Somerset Maugham creativeimaginationexercise Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception. Wallace D. Wattles idealsimaginationperfect The imagination is one of the forces of nature. Wallace Stevens forces-of-natureforceimagination The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination. Wallace Stevens essentialsimaginationplay The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have. Wallace Stevens vitalityrealimagination«155156157158159160161162163164165»
