Quotes by Imagination By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination. William Grey Walter imaginationbrainfirsts It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it round, and whose own special genius partly determine the ultimate glory of it. William H. Gass empathyimaginationart The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. William Irwin Thompson karmaimaginationthinking Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. William Irwin Thompson domainimaginationfeels Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours. William James imaginationmay Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. William Hazlitt receivingimaginationart The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. William Hazlitt imaginationwantordinary Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before. William Hazlitt imaginationexpressionsight You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown. William Kennedy moving-forwardimaginationmoving A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. William Hazlitt imaginationmenbelieve The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it. William Hazlitt delicatetextureimagination But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich. William L. Shirer drunkimaginationhistory We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone. William Hazlitt angerimaginationlong When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling. William Hazlitt imaginationpeoplefall Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are 'the best of kings'. It is their power, their splendour, it is the apprehension of the personal consequences of their favour or their hatred that dazzles the imagination and suspends the judgement of their favourites or their vassals; but death cancels the bond of allegiance and of interest; and seen AS THEY WERE, their power and their pretensions look monstrous and ridiculous. William Hazlitt imaginationkingscharacter There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc. William Makepeace Thackeray imaginationbeautifulchildren Imagination comes in after we have experience. William Morris Hunt imagination It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything. William Morris produceimaginationchildren Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order. William Morris imaginationmenorder Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish. William Poundstone kangaroosimaginationsimple«162163164165166167168169170171172»
