Imagination Quotes

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

Dee Rees

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You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

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When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Samuel Dash

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The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

Tony Robbins

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Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

Tim Robbins

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Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

Ray Bradbury

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Baruch Spinoza

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I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.

Deborah Raney

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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

George Jean Nathan

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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

Van Morrison

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Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

Robert Collier

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Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Norman Vincent Peale

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I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

Patty Duke

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My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

Barbara Corcoran

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Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

Joaquin Phoenix

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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.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is 'Mornings on Horseback,' about the young Teddy Roosevelt.

Erik Larson

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

Salman Rushdie

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The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

Robert Fitzgerald

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Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

Ridley Scott

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The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

Nicholas Ray

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The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

Jill Lepore

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Doc Brown had a feverous imagination. He was constantly coming up with new ways and solutions to various issues, and time travel was one of them. I was just very inspired by being able to portray somebody of that sort. He's a man of tremendous energy and excitement about discovery.

Christopher Lloyd

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A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

Fred G. Gosman

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