Quotes by Imagination The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. John W. Gardner creativitycreativeimagination The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. John Ruskin imaginationpowerinspirational In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet. John Ruskin nobleimaginationtrying Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life. Joko Beck imaginationmemoriesthinking What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. John Ruskin suggestionspoetryimagination The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things. John Ruskin intuitionessentialsimagination I think it's deeply important for us to know, especially when we come from the outside, how "ordinary people" think and feel and what their expectations are and what their concerns are. Also what's in their imaginations, what's in their minds, even what their rumors are and what their gossip is. Jon Lee Anderson imaginationpeoplethinking Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tasteimaginationliterature Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation. Jon Pareles egoartistimagination "What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well. Jon Kabat-Zinn imaginationwindjobs Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe motivationimaginationmistake The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. Jonah Lehrer boxesbreak-outimagination The view... from my apartment... was the World Trade Center... and now it's gone, they attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity, and strength, and labor, and imagination and commerce, and it is gone. But you know what? You know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the South of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that! Jon Stewart libertyimaginationviews So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination. Jonathan Edwards imaginationevilideas The figure of my father looms large in my imagination. Jonathan Franzen figuresimaginationfather When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent. Jonathan Raban visionimaginationmen The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation. Jonathan Sacks imaginationreligiousdrama Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination. Jonathan Franzen dataimaginationneeds There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship. Jon Stewart sparksshipsimagination The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner. Jordan Peele imaginationrunningpeople«7980818283848586878889»
