I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?
The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
My imagination was really hyperactive as a child and animated. I had those elements, but as you live and go through the hardships, it fades. 'Pete's Dragon' reawakened that. It rekindled the feeling of the invisible dragon.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
We especially need imagination in science.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Only in your imagination can you revise.
The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.
The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
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?
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything that you do in life. And the other is the inside part: your own personality and imagination, and no two people are alike, like fingerprints.
I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.
I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.
There's so much more that I want to do. Of course it's great what has happened so far: Ultra, Coachella, EDC. But still, production-wise and show-wise, I'd love to play a show at Madison Square Garden. Stuff like that is beyond my imagination.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
