I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist. – Susan Sarandon
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. – William Godwin
Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk. – Sheherazade Goldsmith
The imagination of our children is blunted on television, and their thinking is done for them. – Stanley R. Jaffe
I can’t separate the process of writing from the visual process. I’m speaking only for myself here, but I’m a highly visual writer. In my imagination, when I’m thinking of a scene, I think of every last detail of it: The space, the color palette, the blocking of the actors, the placement of the camera. – Stephen Gaghan
I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals’ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with. – Thomas Sowell
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. – William Butler Yeats
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. – Stewart O’Nan
My imagination ran 24/7, and to me, every problem was a challenge to solve and new product to create. It wasn’t until I started teaching that I realized that not everyone’s head worked the same way. – Steve Blank
When you believe in what you’re doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference. – Samuel Dash
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize. – William Godwin
There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers – Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination. – Zac Posen
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. – William Arthur Ward
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We’re not scientists. We don’t always have to make the logical, reasonable leap. – Stella Adler
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt
I suspect that one of capitalism’s crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds. – Zygmunt Bauman
Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men’s sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests. – William Godwin
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend. – Stephen Lang