Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: imagination

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

The crazy thing about 'Hook' was it was one of the movies in town that everybody knew about. It was the biggest film shooting in Hollywood at the time and the idea of Robin Williams playing Peter Pan really captured everybody's imagination.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

While I can't tell you what people are going to do for work 100 years from now, the future doesn't hinge on my imagination.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

I do rely on my instincts a lot and my imagination.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.