#imagination

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!" ↗

— Bill Bradley

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Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough. ↗

— Donna Brazile

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I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it. ↗

— Adrien Brody

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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. ↗

— John Burroughs

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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. ↗

— Maria Callas

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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. ↗

— John le Carre

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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever? ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ↗

— John Dewey

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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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