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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. (Quote by - David Bailey)

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. (Quote by - John Lennon)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation. (Quote by - Hayden Christensen)

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.... Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... Do not build obstacles in your imagination ... Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. (Quote by - Jack London)

An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)

Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring. (Quote by - Leslie Grimutter)

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. (Quote by - Ursula K. Le Guin)

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. (Quote by - Simone Weil)

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. (Quote by - Maria Callas)

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. (Quote by - Duane Michals)

To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover, and a bee, and revery The revery alone will do, if bees are few. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. (Quote by - George Smith Patton)

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears, creates. (Quote by - Hannah More)

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. (Quote by - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)

This world is but canvas to our imaginations (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees. (Quote by - Arabic proverb)

Insist on yourself; never imitate. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

In real cricket, the player who has developed imagination and skill mkaes the game, but in the one day match it is the other way round. The match dictates to the player. (Quote by - Brian Close)

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