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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Imagination

"You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live."

Imagination Poetry Intelligence
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George Benjamin Composer
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"It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have to wait until I come back to the path. I think there's an internal force that makes a piece logical from beginning to end; I like to tell stories in music that are unexpected but also logical."

Thinking Waiting Imagination
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Imagination

"There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs."

Men Race Imagination
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Imagination

"A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow."

Men Mean Imagination
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures."

Lying Imagination Clouds
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Imagination

"The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them."

Imagination Doubt Fuel
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst."

Life Imagination Clouds
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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
Imagination

"Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride."

Way Imagination Fiction
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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
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"Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences."

Thinking Children Imagination
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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
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"I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?"

Voice Imagination Jeans
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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
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"I want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue that are not gratuitously violent, that are not using bullets and bloodshed, but are using things like magic and fantasy and enchantment and the imagination. To me that's just all positive stuff. But I am eclectic and I still like to make movies for the midnight audience as well."

Trying Imagination Magic
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Nicolas Godin Musician
Imagination

"It's better to find a composition through an instrument and to play it and record it because you have something. It's a composition, and the song is good. It lives as a song. The worst is when you have a song and nothing is working well when you produce it. It's not like what you expect in your imagination. It's the worst because it requires a lot of work."

Song Imagination Worst
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Imagination

"For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity comes from the imagination and a response to the environment, as you know. So they're both very similar in that way because it's about one's inner life interacting with the environment and what comes from that."

Art Imagination Creativity
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world."

World Mind Imagination
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George Li Pianist
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"If one has to conform to a certain taste, he/she might lose his/her own individuality and imagination. But if you don't really care about winning competitions and think of them as chances to learn from the experience, they would become good ways to learn about others and yourself. Competitions are also stages where one becomes known to the public."

Thinking Winning Imagination
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George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter
Imagination

"I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age."

Book Age Imagination
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George Santayana Philosopher, Poet
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"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends."

Art Imagination Demand
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