Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: imagination

I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

People can die of mere imagination.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

As a manager, you have to sow a seed of imagination in your players.

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer.