Quotes by Imagination Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it. Josef Albers mysteryimaginationworld Usually I say I have no imagination. Jose Padilha imagination In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other. Jose Raul Capablanca imaginationplayerhands Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas. Jose Raul Capablanca imaginationstruggleideas A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge. Joseph Black niceimaginationdoe Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination. Jonathan Swift glasseslightimagination Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them. Joseph B. Wirthlin imaginationfireheart With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live. Joseph Curiale creativityimaginationart Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. Joseph Conrad imaginationwritingart Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind. Joseph Franklin Rutherford jehovahrichimagination Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius. Joseph Addison supportimaginationperfection The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic, either of common language or of mathematics, are important adjuncts. Joseph Henry common-senseimaginationscience Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it. Jorge Luis Borges imaginationwritingreality There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come. Joseph Campbell brokenimaginationrelationship I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy. Joseph Heller mercyimaginationprocess I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination. Joseph Gordon-Levitt imaginationkidsthinking I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself. Joseph Heller imaginationgivingthinking What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption? Jonathan Safran Foer threecompassionimagination All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form. Joseph Plaskett imaginationmistakeideas I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless. Joseph Addison sacredimaginationthinking«8081828384858687888990»
