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Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality. -- Gary Paulsen
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. -- Jonas Salk
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. -- Judy Garland
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. -- Jonas Salk
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. -- Irving Howe
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. -- George Santayana
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. -- Samuel Johnson
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
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. -- Tom Waits
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
The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to. -- Alden Ehrenreich
Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly. -- James Surowiecki
You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination. -- Maimonides
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination. -- Sofia Kovalevskaya
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress. -- Kate Atkinson
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
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
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. -- Ashley Judd
Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees. -- Ron Perlman
I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all. -- Sufjan Stevens
Imagination creates reality. -- Richard Wagner
Imagination is a reality. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Embrace reality by imagination. -- Austin Osman Spare
My imagination creates my reality. -- Walt Disney
Reality cannot breathe without imagination. -- Lionel Suggs
Your imagination can create a reality -- James Cameron
Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Imagination is the beginning of reality. -- Jim Rohn
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Few men have imagination enough for reality. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality. -- Cesare Pavese
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. -- Mark Twain
Imagination is the one weapon against reality. -- Jules de Gaultier
Imagination and reality have little in common -- Emmanuelle Riva
Reality is for people that lack imagination. -- Hayao Miyazaki
Imagination is the other end of Reality. -- K. Hari Kumar
Few people have the imagination for reality. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Imagination is the other end of Reality. -- K. Hari Kumar
I think your imagination is your reality -- Diana Vreeland
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. -- John Lennon
We suffer more in imagination than in reality. -- Seneca the Younger
Imagination, persistence, perseverance, and trust transform dreams into reality. -- Debasish Mridha
Success is when reality catches up to your imagination. -- Simon Sinek
Imagination is so much harder to face than reality. -- Mabel Seeley
Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination. -- John B. S. Haldane
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. -- Lewis Carroll
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. -- Lewis Carroll
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality. -- Samuel Johnson
What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination. -- Robert Breault
Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much. -- James Siegel
She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination. -- S.A. Tawks
Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality. -- Henry Moore
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination. -- Marissa Mayer
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination. -- Ramana Maharshi
As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality. -- Sarah Cross
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. -- Rajneesh
Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it. -- Colin Wilson
Imagination should be used, not to escape reality, but to create it. -- Collin Wilson
His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life. -- Dan Simmons
Live in your imagination today, for tomorrow it can become your reality. -- Kevin Eikenberry
I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality. -- Lana Del Rey
Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination? -- Andrei Tarkovsky
Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs -- Seth
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized. -- Mary Caroline Richards
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world ... -- Wallace Stevens
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity. -- Paul McCabe
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination. -- Vernon Howard
Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend. -- Brenda Laurel
There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful! -- August Strindberg
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. -- Jules Verne
An inventor is he whose thoughts and imagination become things of reality by creative action. -- Debasish Mridha
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries -- Wayne Dyer
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. -- Jean Baudrillard
Imagination is reality in one's mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts. -- Prerak Trivedi
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination. -- Aharon Appelfeld
A Dream is a seed.Vision plants it.Imagination nurtures growth.Opportunities create blooms.Reflection becomes Reality! -- Donna McGoff
Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality. -- Neville Goddard
The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities. -- Jane Roberts
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. -- James Cameron
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. -- Jeanette Winterson
I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality. -- Conor McGregor
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. -- Northrop Frye
She wondered which wounds went deeper: the jagged wounds of reality, or the profound invisible bruises of the imagination? -- Vita Sackville-West
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. -- Jonas Salk
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. -- Wislawa Szymborska
Music and imagination are made of the same substance -they contain soulful substances that are more real than reality. -- Aniekee Tochukwu
The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality. -- George MacKay
But he was not kidnapped. ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality. -- Gerard Latortue
Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality. -- Ellen Glasgow
True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination. -- Hosea Ballou
I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality. -- Betty Eadie
Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality. -- Hassan Blasim
Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work. -- Paul Bloom
Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality. -- William Wordsworth
Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you. -- James Cameron
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. -- bell hooks
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. -- Tom Robbins
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. -- Cyril Connolly
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. -- Anais Nin
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. -- Tom Waits
I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality. -- C.J. Anderson
imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow. -- Nancy Hale
I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality. -- Woody Allen
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. -- Steven Spielberg
The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions. -- Debasish Mridha
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action. -- Jerome Ravetz
I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on. -- Dave Attell
Through the realization of the potentials and possibilities within and outside of you, one connects imagination with reality. What could be becomes so. -- Darrell Calkins
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight. -- William Carlos Williams
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now. -- Xavier de Maistre

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