"Imagination comes in after we have experience."

-- William Morris Hunt

#Imagination Quotes

“To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.”

Source : Theodore Zeldin (2012). “An Intimate History Of Humanity”, p.155, Random House
“I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.”
“Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.”
“I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.”
“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”
“Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.”
“Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.”

Source : Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”
“Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.”

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