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3 December 2020 Dorthea Brande

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

3 December 2020 Terry Brooks

Well, I think that as a country, we’ve drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

3 December 2020 Cesare Pavese

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?

3 December 2020 Henry Miller

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

3 December 2020 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

3 December 2020 William Hazlitt

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

3 December 2020 Jean Giraudoux

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.

3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

3 December 2020 Edith Wharton

There are moments when a man’s imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett

I’ve always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

3 December 2020 Susan Sarandon

I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

3 December 2020 Whoopi Goldberg

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

3 December 2020 Patricia Highsmith

My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.

3 December 2020 Richard Le Gallienne

We also maintain – again with perfect truth – that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

3 December 2020 Erin Morgenstern

I’m an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

3 December 2020 Janet Jackson

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

3 December 2020 Paul Farmer

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

3 December 2020 Courteney Cox

I’m not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

3 December 2020 Mary Wesley

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia’s appearances to the reader’s imagination.

3 December 2020 Ian Mcewan

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

3 December 2020 Franz Kafka

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

3 December 2020 Tycho Brahe

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

3 December 2020 Maria Montessori

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

3 December 2020 Michael Tippett

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

3 December 2020 Edgar Allan Poe

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

3 December 2020 Eduard Hanslick

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

3 December 2020 Lara St. John

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one’s children is paramount.

3 December 2020 Fay Wray

Only in your imagination can you revise.

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

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