To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist then led me to their lairs ...

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Our imagination flies we are its shadow on the earth.

Imagination creates reality.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

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.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

People can die of mere imagination.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

It is not enough to know your craft you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have for their usefulness.- Thomas Merton

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

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

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

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

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is the health of every man.

What is now proved was only once imagined.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Its subjunctive history. You know the subjunctive The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

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.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

I never did very well in math I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

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

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

Indeed a man is rather being thought than thinking when a new thought arises in his mind.

Imagination can create lies that duals truths.

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

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind.

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

There are no shortcuts in life only those we imagine.

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

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

The only difference between a caprice and a life long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.