- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination Quotes
The inner world that fuels everything made real.
These imagination quotes link creativity to childhood spontaneity, personal experience, and even economic theory, with one quote suggesting that imagination in economics lags behind the systems it studies. Musicians here describe imagination as something that has to stay current to keep capturing attention. See Dream for a related theme.
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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
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My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
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My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
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One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are, in many ways, saying the same thing, but it requires a bit of imagination to get people to see that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.
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I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.
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You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
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I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
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Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.
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- Nov 07, 2020