We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. . . . Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident.
Imagination & Visualization Quotes (2754 Quotes)
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
going to be about as ugly a scene a you can imagine.
These images come from the imagination of whites, and it's whites who need to address them.
I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.
First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
My mother-in-law gave me some good advice about being in the kitchen. Choose your imagination, which means if you find a recipe and you don't have all the ingredients, just pick something else to put in its place.
The very gradual character of the changes of the body also contributes to the stability of the ego, but in a much less degree than people imagine.
We'd like to thank Tod Fitzpatrick for a job well done. Tod was influential in selecting his successor, and plans to work with Marc through the transition. We are grateful for his vision, dedication and success.
The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination.
It's still just incredible to me that God gave me the opportunity for 24 years to be the caretaker of this program. It has been the most incredible ride you could ever imagine.
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
My dad had a vision of what a bookseller's role in society was.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.
It gave a sense of the possibilities of an alternative culture. And it wasn't just poetry that moved people. It was the sense of a community, of people with a vision.
What I love about Paul's work is the combination of the endless invention with a strong dramatic imagination.
We have found no corruption by the secretary general, ... his behavior has not been exonerated by any stretch of the imagination.
As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
We all got the feeling that this was a real labour of love for Deepa, ... So we all wanted to make sure we did our best, to help her realize her vision.
This was a worst-case scenario, a nightmare scenario. I don't think anyone in their wildest imagination would have expected an escalation like what we have seen.
You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the dis
Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
She's not an angel by any stretch of the imagination. I think it's immaturity. She will grow and develop. Being in a situation where she can contribute more will help.
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply.... We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, 'How would I myself live in this proposed society How long would it be before I went stark staring mad'
Today we are enhancing the leadership team and structure across the division to ensure we have the right organization to support our technology vision.
Our country needs a vision. We also need a prime minister that knows about difficulties encountered by families and businesses. The Gonzi government is led by convenience not conviction
So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity - to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him - thi
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
Leon is connected to our community in ways that very few elected officials are. He will leave a sense of fairness and a vision that encourages all of us to find the good in each other and build up on that, as opposed to what divides us.
For tomorrow to be successful we're going to need the continued support and growth of our membership and our community. Our vision is that downtown Mount Vernon and the Central Business District will be the choice for shopping, dining, entertainment, recreation and tourism in Ohio.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
You want to have more information that you can just glance at and work with in a very simple way. The idea of a big screen that uses your full field of vision makes sense to us.
I think for all of us it's exciting to see the continued growth in the city and the arena. More than anything, we're happy for the leaders in the city who were really the catalysts for this. ... It's exciting for us, for them to feel that the vision they had is coming to fruition.
They play hard. They play together. They have more of a vision. Everyone understands what everyone else is doing, because they've been playing together for a long time.
I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to he a Negro. what the qualities of life were. With their imagination, they combine two great loves the love of words and the love of life. Poetry results.
A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
Garfield's vision was ahead of its time. He saw the potential of citation searching for researchers, but it took 40 years for the technology to advance to the point that allowed his vision to be fully realized.
I wish coach was here. I hope he gets to feeling better. He's done more for this school than anybody could ever imagine.
I never wanted to do Harry Potter. I thought it should have stayed as a book. There are some books that should be made into movies and some that shouldn't. Harry Potter is 70 imagination. When the movie comes out, it's going to be such a stereotype for kids. When they think of Harry Potter, they're going to think of what is portrayed on screen.
I have tunnel vision. I can only see him on offense.
We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.
It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.