The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.