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"Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams."
"Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation."
"Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!"
"The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century."
"It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing."
"If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all."
"I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything."
"We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them..."
"Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind."
"To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction."
"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"
"You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over."
"Anybody can do anything that he imagines."
"My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day."
"I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality."
"Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive."
"Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step."
"Imagination means nothing without doing."
"In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow."
"Let your mind alone, and see what happens."
