Explore Quotes on Imagination

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

Using one's imagination to the fullest is necessary for a happy life.

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

It's fun to pretend you're a little kid, you get to use your imagination and live in a world that's not real.

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there, ready to have their imaginations lit on fire, excited and wanting to read, and facing naked shelves in their school or local libraries. Rather than complain or wait till the system stops failing our nation's children this is a matter I feel we must take into our own hands. There are children, right now, waiting-wanting to read. What shall we tell them>

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.

If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky.

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.

The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.

I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

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

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?