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My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around! – Dr. Seuss


The world is but a canvas to the imagination. – Henry David Thoreau


It's time to start living the life you've imagined. – Henry James


Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. – G. K. Chesterton


They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon


A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942


Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. – Albert Einstein


Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. – Blaise Pascal


Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. – Carl Sagan


Don't expect anything original from an echo. – Author Unknown


I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. – Theodore Geisel


A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant. – Author Unknown


A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream of things that never were and say “Why not?” – George Bernard Shaw


I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. – Michelangelo


It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. – Henry David Thoreau


I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. – Pablo Picasso


There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. – Ansel Adams


Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! – Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!


You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. – Jack London


The Possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination. – Emily Dickinson


You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain


I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. – Duane Michals, Real Dreams


There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. – G. K. Chesterton


It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. – Paul Gauguin


I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. – Walt Disney


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. – Albert Einstein


Imagination decides everything. – Blaise Pascal


The life of faith is less about gathering information than it is about expanding imagination. – Erwin Raphael McManus


The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. – Albert Einstein


Imagination [is] a way to get inside the truth. – Eugene Peterson


We say to our children, "Act like grown-ups," but Jesus said to the grown-ups, "Be like children." – Billy Graham


You were built for creativity. Your eyes look for opportunity, you ears listen for direction, your mind requires a challenge, and your heart longs for God's way. Your heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of. ...All people of action are first dreamers. The wonder of imagination is this: it has the power to light its own fire. Ability is a flame, creativity is a fire. – John Mason, You're Born An Original, Don't Die A Copy

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