Imagination Quotes - Page 30

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.

I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination or allow you to visualise every line the way books do.

Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.