#imagination

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another! ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#disagreement #dreams #faith #future #hopes

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#discovered #here #imagination #india #inexhaustible

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

— Maria Montessori

#especially #imagination #logic #mathematics #need

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#beginning #book #forward #i #imagination

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#change #choose #conscience #creative #every

Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio. ↗

— Brian Cox

#creation #ever #film #films #full

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#artists #compromise #daily #daily life #defeated

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#danger #deliver #failures #human #human relationships

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful. ↗

— Jack Vance

#had #his #imagination #smith #talented

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#act #borrow #borrowing #examine #him