The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and confl...
Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
If democracy is to once again inspire a populist politics, it is crucial to develop a number of social movements in which the stories told are never completed, but are always open to self- and social reflection, capable of pushing ever further the bo...
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
