#imagination

"Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep."

"As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we."

"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."

"Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul."

"There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk’s patience, a Warrior’s courage, a Child’s imagination."

"People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]"

"Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap"

"It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary."

"I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us."

"Consciousness makes you an unlimited being by giving the power of your imagination."

"It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities."

"In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community)"

"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love."

"To find the nectar of life, let me get lost in the mysteries and beauties of the imagination."

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

"In my imagination, I can feel your presence. I can feel the warmth of your passionate hug. I can hear your sweet voice. I can hear the song of your beating heart."

"Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination."