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- Worry is a misuse of imagination.
- Dan Zadra
- The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
- Cynthia Ozick
- It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.
- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
- Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
- Napoleon Hill
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