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Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of two opposite errors: of letting your imagination soar unballasted by facts, but on the other hand, of shackling it so solidly that it loses all incentive to rise.

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your minds eye. Thats an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination

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

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

Your imagination will create many friends

You don't have to know anything about a subject as long as you use common sense and imagination, plus enthusiasm! I use all periods of design in my work, for, after all, decorative styles are simply indications of a manner of living.

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.

... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless.

The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.