The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Multitasking, throughput, efficiency – these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture human thought and imagination?
I don’t think it’s any sort of stretch of the imagination to say that, very, very realistically, each single bitcoin, if bitcoin becomes popular, will have to be worth at least tens of thousands of dollars.
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.
The imagination is such as powerful tool: suggestion is all you need. People fill in gaps.
The map we made of the 3,000-year-old city of Tanis requires no imagination. It has buildings, streets, admin complexes, houses – clear as day.
There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.
I remember being so homesick and realizing that where I came from was not something that existed in the cultural imagination outside the city. People used to think Miami was just partying in South Beach all the time.
I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
Everyone wants to be a writer, director, producer. I don’t have the imagination for that, but, hopefully, I can continue to act.
As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.
She was my wife and I love her & loved her beyond imagination but I also respected her art, the passion and dedication with which she committed herself to her work.
Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‘Keep Out’ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
When you’re young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It’s the best!
I think imagination can be an incredibly powerful tool and it can help you get more confidence.
You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character – a living being – within each of my books.
My children have been all over the world, and I think it’s so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.
Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind’s eye. That’s an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.
Here I sit, beneath the large window of a first-floor Georgian flat, exploring the corridors of my sordid imagination for comedic words of beauty.
The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It’s a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he’d be pleased.
