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Imagination Quotes

When the imagination is alive, the life remains youthful.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. When the imagination is alive, possibility is awake because imagination is the great friend of possibility. Possibilities are always more interesting than facts. We should not frown on facts, but our world is congested with them.

– John O’Donohue

Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World (Walking on the Pastures of Wonder in Europe).

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

– Henry George

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it’s real.

– Gustavo Dudamel

I don’t know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.

– Grace Lee Boggs

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It’s about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

– Guy Fieri

W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.

– Gerald Vizenor

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

– Geraldine McCaughrean

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

– Henry Ward Beecher

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

– H. G. Wells

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

– Henry David Thoreau

Games are the way we keep romance alive. They’re based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.

– Helen Fisher

‘Super 8’ was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun working with J.J. Abrams, who I think is a kid in a grown man’s body, which is a great ingredient for any artist in our business. You have to be a kid at heart to be able to make believe, and his imagination is phenomenal.

– Glynn Turman

Man lives by imagination.

– Havelock Ellis

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child’s mind must be set free.

– Henry Williamson

The woman who appeals to a man’s vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

– Helen Rowland

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

– George Bernard Shaw

Back to Methuselah, Part 1, Act 1.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

– Harvey Keitel

I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It’s as difficult to write a crime or a children’s novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

– Garry Disher

I grew up in the ’80s where there’s a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you’re not supposed to.

– Gillian Flynn

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

– Henry David Thoreau

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

– Henry James

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don’t fit in with normal, healthy people.

– Henry Williamson

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

– Hari Kunzru

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang’s feeble imagination.

– Henry Miller

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

– H. L. Mencken

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

– Hanya Yanagihara

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

– Henry Ford

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.

– Hedy Lamarr

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

– Hilary Mantel

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