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Imagination And Reality Quotes

Q: What’s hard for you? A: 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. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German. Tom Waits
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
What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings? The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another... Ben Okri
There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters. Neil Gaiman
I can't make you understandbecause you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart ofa lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both ofthose qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'llnever want to escape from them as I do. Margaret Mitchell
You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings. Richard Grant
Tom Robbins quote: "Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's..."
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. Tom Robbins
George Santayana quote: "The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is,..."
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. George Santayana
Jonas Salk quote: "There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of..."
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk quote: "Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of..."
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. Jonas Salk
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
Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the... L. Frank Baum
Irving Howe quote: "Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of..."
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. Irving Howe
Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have happened: for only the latter have produced an effect. Likewise only with supposed heroes. His theme, so-called world history, is opinions about supposed actions and their supposed motives, which in turn give rise to further opinions and actions, the reality of which is however at once vaporised again and produces an effect only as vapour - a continual generation and... Friedrich Nietzsche
I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and a very important part of me had been destroyed - that was my reality, the facts of my life. But on the other side of the facts was who I could be, how I could feel. And as long as I had words for that, images for that, stories for that, then I wasn't lost. Jeanette Winterson

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