Quotes by Imagination Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. Joseph Conrad imaginationgivingmoving I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is something irrevocable that a child loses when he or she becomes bound by logic. We adults continue to have our children Joseph Weizenbaum imaginationchildrenthinking Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination. Jonathan Swift businessimaginationmen The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks. Josephine Baker imaginationwhite Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination. Joseph Wood Krutch imaginationlovefacts Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic. Josephine Tey fastinglogicimagination I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me. Joseph Conrad quarrelsimagineimagination The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination. Josh Linkner creativityimaginationworry I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain. Josh McDermitt activeimaginationbrain He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. Joseph Joubert imaginationfeetwings Music is very transporting. I'll hear a song for the first time and I rarely listen to the lyrics. I picture that song playing as a soundtrack to a movie, or even just in the background of someone's life. This all sounds weird, but I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain. Josh McDermitt imaginationbrainsong We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do. Josh Radnor spaceimaginationpeople We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up. Joshua Ferris contentmentimaginationgiving The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds. Joshua Reynolds imaginationfeelingsart How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination. Joy Browne womenhard-workimagination Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. Joyce Carol Oates imaginationrunningthinking What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination? Joyce Cary actorspowerfulimagination No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking. J.P.R. Williams linesimaginationideas What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination? Joseph Campbell imaginationmenreligion For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable. Joyce Carol Oates imaginationselfwriting«8182838485868788899091»
