Imagination Quotes - Page 5

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is dangerous. It also lacks imagination.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.