The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.
Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.
I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.
I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I'm very observant.
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Some stories are true that never happened.
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.
Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.
I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.
I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.
It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is 'Mornings on Horseback,' about the young Teddy Roosevelt.
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
Only in your imagination can you revise.
When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.