Imaginative Quotes

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Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.

If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.

Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.

Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.