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Image of Ben Okri
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
- Ben Okri
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Image of Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Image of Chris Brown
I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
- Chris Brown
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Image of Anatole France
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
- Anatole France
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Image of Arthur C. Clarke
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Image of Elie Wiesel
Some stories are true that never happened.
- Elie Wiesel
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Image of Richard Bach
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
- Richard Bach
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Image of Percy Bysshe Shelley
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Image of Jerry Gillies
Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
- Jerry Gillies
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Image of Quincy Jones
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
- Quincy Jones
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Image of Kerry Thornley
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
- Kerry Thornley
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Image of Vernon Howard
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
- Vernon Howard
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Image of Frank Capra
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
- Frank Capra
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Image of Edith Wharton
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
- Edith Wharton
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Image of James Welch
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.
- James Welch
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Image of Alessandro Nivola
I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.
- Alessandro Nivola
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Image of Rory MacLean
To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.
- Rory MacLean
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Image of Terry Wogan
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
- Terry Wogan
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Image of Andrew Wyeth
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
- Andrew Wyeth
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Image of Michel Gondry
I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.
- Michel Gondry
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Image of George R. R. Martin
I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of Andre Dubus III
My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
- Andre Dubus III
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Image of Mason Cooley
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Philip Guston
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
- Philip Guston
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Image of Barbara Corcoran
My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
- Barbara Corcoran
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Image of Louis Aragon
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.
- Louis Aragon
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Image of Alexander McCall Smith
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
- Alexander McCall Smith
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Image of Duncan Sheik
I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.
- Duncan Sheik
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Image of Roger McGuinn
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
- Roger McGuinn
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Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Image of Steven Spielberg
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
- Steven Spielberg
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Image of Chris Cooper
I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.
- Chris Cooper
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Image of Thom Yorke
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.
- Thom Yorke
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Image of Eric Alterman
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.
- Eric Alterman
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Image of Zig Ziglar
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
- Zig Ziglar
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Image of Robert Green Ingersoll
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
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Image of Diego Klattenhoff
You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.
- Diego Klattenhoff
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Image of Alan Greenspan
You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
- Alan Greenspan
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Image of Stella Adler
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
- Stella Adler
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Image of Michael Leunig
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.
- Michael Leunig
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Image of Jennifer Lopez
You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.
- Jennifer Lopez
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Image of Mary Gaitskill
The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.
- Mary Gaitskill
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Image of Reinhold Messner
For me, imagination is more important in climbing than muscle or daredevil antics.
- Reinhold Messner
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Image of Mario Vargas Llosa
Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
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Image of Benjamin Spock
Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.
- Benjamin Spock
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Image of Margot Lee Shetterly
Without imagination, I don't think there's any progress.
- Margot Lee Shetterly
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Image of Janet Frame
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
- Janet Frame
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Image of Eduard Hanslick
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
- Eduard Hanslick
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Image of Ernst Toller
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?
- Ernst Toller
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