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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

~ Albert Einstein

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

~ Walt Disney

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

~ Robin Williams

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

~ William Arthur Ward

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

~ Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

~ Milan Kundera

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

~ Stephen King

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

~ Jerry Gillies

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

~ James Dean

If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.

~ David Cassidy

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

~ Mark Ruffalo

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

~ George Lucas

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

~ Franklin Pierce Adams

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

~ Robert Collier

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

~ Jessica Hagedorn

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.

~ Shia Labeouf

When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.

~ Neil Gaiman

I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.

~ Amy Sedaris

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

~ Alan Greenspan

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

~ Bruce Catton

In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

~ Washed Out

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

~ Charles De Gaulle

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

~ Stephen Lang

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

~ Jerry Gillies

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

~ Sam Levenson

The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.

~ Arthur Slade

I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.

~ James Wan

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

~ Orlando Bloom

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Anything I did with the WWE was not therapeutic by any stretch of the imagination. The reality is that nobody's going to tell you that, because they have an umbilical cord hooked to Vince McMahon. I, ladies and gentlemen, do not.

~ Bill Goldberg

Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

~ Paloma Faith

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

~ Edmund White

I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.

~ Alan Moore

It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.

~ Rupert Friend

I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice.

~ Rupert Friend

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

~ Joel Kinnaman

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

~ Billy Collins

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

~ Tom Wolfe

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

~ Mark Haddon

Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying, 'Here's what you get if you wait to that year.' Well, we all waited till that year, and we didn't get anything at all like that.

~ Robert J. Sawyer