“Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.”
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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“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.”
— William Morris
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“Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.”
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
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“The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.”
— Gilbert Murray
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“A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch… or a baton… or something.”
— Mo Rocca
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“Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.”
— Cyril Connolly
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“When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.”
— Rhona Mitra
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“Usually I say I have no imagination.”
— Jose Padilha
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“By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.”
— Dorthea Brande
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“You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.”
— Denis Waitley
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“It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.”
— H. L. Mencken
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