Grace Lin Quotes

Imagination is my best friend.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

I have a very vivid imagination.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

I've always had an involved imagination.

Man lives by imagination.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

I dream in color; it's always a movie and sometimes I'm in it, as myself.

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

I think whatever is going on with my brain, I'm very, very - and I'm not saying this as a positive thing, it's just a fact - I'm very creative. I have a very strong imagination, and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.

Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

We all live best in our imaginations.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.