Quotes by Imagination However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. J. K. Rowling imaginationcollegeviews A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature. Jacob Bronowski imaginationphilosophyart It's just a figment of the imagination. Jacob Zuma figmentsridiculousimagination We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. Jacob Bronowski imaginationmencivilization It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together. Jacob Bronowski imaginationmenscience It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing. Jack Nicholson imaginationcharacterpeople Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets. Jacques Derrida creativityimaginationpet Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination! Jacques Lipchitz wheelsimaginationmen To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man. Jacob Bronowski imaginationmindmen Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole. J. K. Rowling takenimaginationchildren Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. Jacques Maritain imaginationmenblood Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing. J. K. Rowling imaginationblessinglong The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. James A. Michener imaginationwritingpeople As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control. James Arthur environmenttoolsimagination Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind. James Altucher creativityimaginationhelping Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. James A. Baldwin imaginationevilheart That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now. James Anthony Froude serious-personimaginationheart The Phantom Menace is not a masterpiece, but it's an example of how imagination, craftsmanship, and technological bravura can fashion superior entertainment out of something that is far from flawless. James Berardinelli entertainmentfashionimagination Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination. James Beard imaginationsimplesuffering You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings. James Altucher realimaginationideas«6465666768697071727374»
