Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. — John Lennon
Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate
new worlds of thought and experience. — Charles F. Haanel
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. — William Blake
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. — Jules de Gautier
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it. — Colin Wilson
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. — Joseph Conrad
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime. — Terence McKenna
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. — Simone Weil
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality. — Neville Goddard
Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations. — Charles Fillmore
Short Imagination And Reality Quotes
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself. — Rod Serling
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. — William Blake
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. — Albert Camus
The imagination is one of the forces of nature. — Wallace Stevens
Imagination is the highest form of research. — Albert Einstein
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. — Gilbert Parker
Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein
Imagination means nothing without doing. — Charlie Chaplin
Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown. — Denise Levertov
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Imagination And Reality Image Quotes
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Imagination Becomes Reality Quotes
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. — Baruch Spinoza
Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality. — Wayne Dyer
Of course for a Colombian girl it was always impossible to even imagine becoming an international popstar, but my dream became reality. — Shakira
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop. — Yasser Arafat
Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality. — Brian Tracy
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens, I'm always disappointed because it's never like what I imagined in my head. When an idea becomes a reality, then it's a job. I'd rather just think about it. — Amy Sedaris
Everything you can imagine is real.
I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them. — Andy Couturier
Live in your imagination today, for tomorrow it can become your reality. — Kevin Eikenberry
Imagination Creates Reality Quotes
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket. — James Gleick
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality. — Richard Wagner
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. — Sean O Faolain
The power of the creative imagination is not only merely content with observing the world as it is, accepting a given reality, but is capable of creating a new reality by transforming the inner as well as the outer world — Anagarika Govinda
Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience. — Nina Berberova
Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works. — Yoko Ono
The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
You have the power to create hell, and you have the power to create heaven.
Why not dream a different dream? Why not use your mind, your imagination, and your emotions to dream heaven? — Miguel Angel Ruiz
The picture you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality. — Scott Lorenzo
Fantasy And Reality Quotes
There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality — Peter Tosh
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. — Dr. Seuss
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.
Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me. — Freddie Mercury
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. — Lloyd Alexander
Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts. — Zig Ziglar
I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP. — Rachel Zoe
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. — Bill Maher
The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them. — Noel Fielding
Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And you need to watch out for reality because buses come. — Terry Gilliam
Reality And Fantasy Quotes
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do. — Maurice Sendak
See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part. — Lauryn Hill
Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged. — Stephen King
Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions. — Brian Froud
The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened. — Oprah Winfrey
It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings. — Sheldon B. Kopp
Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals. — Denis Waitley
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance. — Michael Crichton
I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great, ... Well, now you turn on CNN and guys are really getting their heads cut off. ... As insane as our fantasy world gets, it's nowhere near as scary as reality. — Alice Cooper
In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality. — Syd Mead
Imagination And Dreams Quotes
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. — Walt Disney
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'. — George Bernard Shaw
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. — Robert Fulghum
So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life. — Mary Oliver
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity. — Ludwig Feuerbach
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty. — Francisco Goya
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood. — Elizabeth Kim
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. — Judy Garland
Imagination, at the very least, brings us joy; at the very most, it empowers us to suspend disbelief and chase the impossible. — Alexi Pappas
Fiction And Reality Quotes
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. — Donna J. Haraway
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. — Chris Chocola
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy. — Isak Dinesen
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction. — Janet Leigh
The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's strong enough, and your spell is strong enough, then you become, like, ultra-magnetic and then everything comes to you. — Watkin Tudor Jones
I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional. — Wolfgang Petersen
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. — Yann Martel
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. — Jean Baudrillard
Imagination And Creativity Quotes
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. — Mae Jemison
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. — Sylvia Plath
When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within — Pipilotti Rist
Everybody has been given this gift by the man upstairs, and it's this thing called imagination. Some of us use it for negative and some of us use it for positive. — Patrick Bet-David
Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting a wonderful new job. That imaginal act now goes forward and you will encounter this pleasant experience in the future. — Neville Goddard
In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration. — Robert J. Shiller
Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful. — Baba Amte
Creativity can solve almost any problem. — George Lois
Power Of Imagination Quotes
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world. — Barack Obama
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. — Osho
I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones. — Henri Coanda
The power of imagination makes us infinite. — John Muir
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. — Susan Sarandon
Biotech is so much more powerful than our Normaltech. Imagine if we could tap its full potential; maybe your car could just heal itself of any scratches. Or it could give birth to your new car. And then you could feed the old one to your house. — Andrej Karpathy
The very definition of power for me is the ability to close your eyes and imagine a world, and then open them... and make that world come true. — Tom Bilyeu
Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain. — Federico Fellini
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Never give up on what you really want to do.
The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. — Albert Einstein
Reading And Imagination Quotes
I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines. — Madeleine Stowe
All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings - anything else that you read into them is mere hallucination, a product of your own overactive imagination. — Julia Serano
Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin. — Ann Patchett
The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote. — Julia Alvarez
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. — C. S. Lewis
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. — Peter Cochrane
The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.
Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words. — Eric Ripert
Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough. — Italo Calvino
I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic. — Chris Ware
I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine. — Marilynne Robinson
And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death,
My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats...
Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death,
Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest. — Kendrick Lamar
I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality. — Conor McGregor
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. — Mary Oliver
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
In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life. — Hugh Hefner
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. — John Henrik Clarke
I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings — Nas
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn
You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine that you are already experiencing what you desire. That is, you must assume the feeling of the fulfillment of your desire until you are possessed by it and this feeling crowds all other ideas out of your consciousness. — Neville Goddard
The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden. — H. P. Lovecraft
This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . . Next stop The Twilight Zone. — Rod Serling
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation. — Keith Haring
Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill [...].The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery. — Sri Yukteswar Giri
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting -- intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen. — Uta Hagen
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. — Robert Collier
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. — Sidney Madwed
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. — Henry Abbey
I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up. — David Grossman
When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realisation of desire. — Joseph Murphy
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. — Michel Foucault
Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than reality. — Jay Shetty
Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination. — Eugene Ionesco
No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is the youngest art form. All attempts to enlarge its frontiers are important and should be encouraged. — Philippe Halsman
We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves. — David Whyte
Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth. — Jules Michelet
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric. — Wislawa Szymborska
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. — John Lennon
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. — Seneca The Elder
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. — Samuel Johnson
Imagine for a minute yourself in the same shoes, the same sense of survival and the same nothing to lose. — Lil' Kim
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. — Napoleon Hill
If you can dream it, you can make it so. — Belva Davis
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality. — Samuel Johnson
Each person has unspeakable distress. When I remember the past, annoying, I cry; The reality of today is too cruel, too severe, and doesn't even offer me a dream; Imagining the future brings me yet another kind of tears — Aya Kito
He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God. — Voltaire
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality. — Bede Griffiths
I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do. — Margaret Mitchell
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. — Haruki Murakami
Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations. — August Strindberg
No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. — Mark Twain
Fantasy and reality often overlap. — Walt Disney
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