Lack Of Imagination Quotes

#1. The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

Carl Van Vechten

#2. Between the new, happy him, and the old, depressing him, there stood in the way only his lack of imagination.

Vann Chow

#3. You're only limited by your lack of imagination and fear of appearing stupid.

Susan Messing

#4. The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Oscar Wilde

#5. The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

Alan Watts

#6. The CIA not only missed the invasion, it refused to admit that it had missed it. Why would anyone in his right mind invade Afghanistan, graveyard of conquerors for two thousand years? A lack of intelligence was not the cause of the failure. A lack of imagination was.

Tim Weiner

#7. I should probably apologize for how much I swear, but fuck it. I've read that some people think swearing shows a lack of imagination and a limited vocabulary, but sometimes "darn" and "poop" and "oh heck" just don't cut it. Besides, swearing is kind of fun.

Bart Yates

#8. Writer's block doesn't exist ... lack of imagination does.

Cyrese Covelli

#9. Try as I could - which wasn't very hard - I rarely ended up fantasising a markedly different life from the one that has been mine. I don't think this is complacency; it's more likely a lack of imagination, or ambition, or something.

Julian Barnes

#10. For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

#11. Luckily, the world is absolutely full of interesting things to do. Only lack of imagination, or lack of energy, stand in the way. Otherwise each of us could be a poet or musician, an inventor or explorer, an amateur scholar, scientist, artist, or collector.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#12. Hate is a lack of imagination.

Graham Greene

#13. Most people suffer from a lack of imagination. They don't dare enough. But I do.

Jeff Wheeler

#14. Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can't imagine being different than you are.

Linda Morris

#15. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

#16. He could no longer be that Ed Larsen, but, through a lack of imagination or just sheer exhaustion, he couldn't come up with a new one, and faked his way through the days like a bad actor ...

Stewart O'Nan

#17. How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to swamp our meager ability to picture alternatives.

Terry Rossio

#18. It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Julian Schnabel

#19. I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?

Michael Beck

#20. I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

Morrissey

#21. In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in stocking the Universe on the part of the Deity.

John N. Bahcall

#22. Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

Susan Ertz

#23. Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.

Denise Levertov

#24. Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

E. M. Forster

#25. Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

Rachel Maddow

#26. I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

Nick Cave

#27. Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

Jarvis Cocker

#28. Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

Charlaine Harris

#29. The true enemy of this bunch was not State Power but Lack of Imagination.

Haruki Murakami

#30. This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

Angela Carter

#31. Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

James Beard

#32. Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Jane Addams

#33. It's tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.

Janny Wurts

#34. The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

Nolan Bushnell

#35. Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.

John Stewart Bell

#36. Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Marcel Proust

#37. The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

Julian Simon

#38. I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Garry Trudeau

#39. All this, grassy paddock, cows, trees - he had thought it was Nature. But now he could see that that was ignorance, or lack of imagination. It was not Nature. It was actually property.

Kate Grenville

#40. Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

Evan Esar

#41. People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

Sydney Smith

#42. I can't make you understand
because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of
a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of
those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll
never want to escape from them as I do.

Margaret Mitchell

#43. for Arendt, if you do not respond adequately when the times demand it, you show a lack of imagination and attention that is as dangerous as deliberately committing an abuse.

Sarah Bakewell

#44. I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

Neil Gaiman

#45. Major barriers to successful planning are fear of change, ignorance, uncertainty about the future, and lack of imagination.

John C. Maxwell

#46. Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer.

Robert Smythe Hichens

#47. And being alone made me want to talk to someone my own age. Someone who understood that using the "f" word wasn't a measure of my lack of imagination. Sometimes using that word just made me feel free.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#48. Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

#49. Character is a lack of doubt, character is stubbornly persevering in an intention no matter how senseless it is, character is a lack of imagination, character is inborn dullness, character is the misfortune of humanity.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#50. Pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

Virginia Woolf

#51. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway,

#52. Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.

Alexandra Adornetto

#53. [The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

Rebecca West

#54. It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

Zoe Heller

#55. We know, but cannot grasp, that above and below, beyond the limits of perception or imagination, thousands of millions of simultaneous transformations are at work, interlinked like a musical score by mathematical counterpoint ... a symphony ... but we lack the ears to hear it.

Stanislaw Lem

#56. It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

Michelle Forbes

#57. The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

Napoleon Hill

#58. For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions.

Federico Fellini

#59. So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.

Nick Hornby

#60. If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

Charles Horton Cooley

#61. Whether out of inertia or selfishness, whether out of fear or a simple lack of moral imagination, we so often spend our lives as if in a fog, accepting injustice, rationalizing inequity, tolerating the intolerable

Barack Obama

#62. It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

Marcel Proust

#63. Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can't conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do.

Charles Bukowski

#64. Don't think that the lack of leaders and of a party ideological line means anarchy, if by anarchy you mean chaos, bedlam, and pandemonium. What a tragic lack of political imagination to think that leaders and centralized structures are the only way to organize effective political projects!

Michael Hardt

#65. As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#66. Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway,

#67. We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#68. And I'm not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas.

Robert Fulghum

#69. The spectacle of people following current custom for lack of will or imagination to do anything else is hardly a new failing.

William H. Whyte

#70. Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

John B. S. Haldane

#71. A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

William Faulkner

#72. The lack of magic is what leads humans to fantasize in the first place. And Alyssa, what a wonderfully powerful force an imagination can be.

A.G. Howard

#73. If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination.

Matthew Donnelly

#74. (Vice President) Garner has taken his personal smallness, his lack of generosity, and forged it into a political principle. He has no imagination, no convictions, and he substitutes political cynicism for social understanding.

Hamilton Basso

#75. We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#76. I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

Michael C. Hall

#77. Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

Anna Funder