“Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's 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.”
Imagination is where every invention, artwork, and act of rebellion started. These quotes celebrate the ability to see what does not yet exist and the courage it takes to bring it into the world, even when people call you crazy.
“I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.”
“Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's 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.”
“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”
“The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.”
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”
“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.”
“'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.”
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”
“Imagination is the true magic carpet.”
“I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.”
“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.”
“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.”
“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”
“It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.”
“We especially need imagination in science.”