Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination.. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.
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The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
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There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. Epistulae ad Lucilium
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.
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People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland.. An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.
If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts what can stop you If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreamsdaydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzingare likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
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Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
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