Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: imagination

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

The map we made of the 3,000-year-old city of Tanis requires no imagination. It has buildings, streets, admin complexes, houses - clear as day.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Boredom is your imagination calling to you.

I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every 'Harry Potter' book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

My father used to say to me, 'The only limit to your success is your own imagination.' I actually believed that - like, I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I might not be an Olympic figure skater.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

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.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

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.

I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

I have a visual imagination.

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

On the sets of the movie 'Manto,' I found that one of the challenges of embodying real-life stories is the mixed medium of facts and imagination, and how one's collage of experiences colour ones representation on celluloid.

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

My imagination is a twisted place.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.