Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: imagination

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

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.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Imagination creates reality.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

I've always had an active imagination.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

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

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

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.

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.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter.

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.

Imagination is an instrument of survival.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.

I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn't; and that's not to say that there aren't many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life's passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there's something different about maternity.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

I loved the world of imagination.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.

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

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

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

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.