Limited Imagination Quotes

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.

I'm really unimaginative - once I like something, I fix on it.

We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique. You have to think, 'I'm me. I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

I could never write a book where the point-of-view character was a short person, because I just can't imagine what that's like.

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

Actors are like Swiss Army knives - we're ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that's the only thing they can imagine.

I had no visual imagination as a child. I liked playing football. That was it.

There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know.

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually... things get quite formulaic.

I'm not a 3-D man; I'm a 2-D man.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too limited to help you effectively! What torment, to have your thinking and your phantasy tied down by another person!

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.