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I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue. -- Nate Lowman
Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring. -- Max von Sydow
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. -- Ron Johnson
True invective requires great imagination. -- George William Curtis
Happiness is there when you have great imagination and vision, when you take relentless action and love your creation. -- Debasish Mridha
Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect. -- Edgar Cayce
The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions. -- Debasish Mridha
I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination. -- Steven Spielberg
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Within that quiet little girl with no apparent needs lived a person with a great imagination. In that shell I lived and grew and planned, until there emerged a way to pull all the loose threads of my life together. -- A.R. Cecil
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination. -- Joseph Joubert
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. -- Mike Krzyzewski
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. -- Philip Stanhope
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. -- John Dewey
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. -- Ronald Reagan
Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch. -- Chris Hemsworth
I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst. -- J. G. Ballard
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. -- Salman Rushdie
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon. -- Will Self
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. -- James A. Michener
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. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier. -- Antony Beevor
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best. -- Raymond Carver
There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination. -- Zac Posen
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. -- Alan Watts
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. -- Catherine the Great
Imagination takes humility, love and great courage. -- Carson McCullers
Inspiration is the seed of imagination, where great ideas bloom -- Jennifer Sodini
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. -- Philip Stanhope
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. -- Philip Stanhope
The great writers are great as they have big workshop of imagination. -- Kishore Bansal
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. -- George Henry Lewes
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The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending. -- Jim Rohn
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. -- William Hazlitt
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player -- Bobby Fischer
There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily. -- Tom Peters
The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities. -- Jane Roberts
Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution? -- Saint Francis de Sales
Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley. -- Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. -- Maria Montessori
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance. -- Napoleon Hill
Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind. -- John Dos Passos
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination. -- Garry Kasparov
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things. -- Alexander von Humboldt
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished. -- Neville Goddard
Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply. -- William Butler Yeats
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. -- Henry James
A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness -- Dean Koontz
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination. -- Samuel Butler
Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience. -- Leonard Bishop
How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination. -- Joy Browne
A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil. -- George Meredith
I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte. -- Don King
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity. -- Chinua Achebe
The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet. -- Terence McKenna
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius -- William Crashaw
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. -- Rebecca Solnit
It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses? -- James Cameron
If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry -- Thomas Cole
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries. -- Karl Pearson
That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas. -- Azar Nafisi
Until one expands his imagination, abilities and capacity to do and receive, he will always have the crumbs from those who dare to do great works -- Bernard Kelvin Clive
I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages. -- Prince Charles
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination. -- Virginia Woolf
The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest. -- Charles Kettering
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination. -- Charles Colson
This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination. -- Stephen King
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination. -- Eddie Marsan
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God. -- Blaise Pascal
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination. -- Ben Okri

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