Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: imagination

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

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.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

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.

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

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

Without imagination and without love, life can be pretty bleak. I think having both will get you through the most dire of situations.

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.

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

I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

Since coming out of jail, I still made mistakes daily. Don't me wrong, I'm not an angel by any stretch of the imagination, but my mistakes are just normal ones now like forgetting to go to the shop when the missus asks or not putting the bins out, stuff like that.

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

True change takes place in the imagination.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

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

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.