Top 86 Use Your Imagination Quotes
#1. You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
Amy Sedaris
#2. I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play ... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.
Max Irons
#3. Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.
Amy Bloom
#5. Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
Mark Haddon
#6. To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.
Common
#7. Voiceover work definitely requires it's own specific muscle. And because you're not seeing what you're recording, and all these things are going on, you really have to use your imagination and stay focused and kind of be able to tap your head and rub your belly at the same time.
Keri Russell
#9. You want to see what this is like? Then please don't use your imagination. Use experience.
Debra Anastasia
#10. For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#11. Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor.
Irma S. Rombauer
#12. I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.
Amy Sedaris
#13. Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#14. The key to fighting in the dark was no different: you had to perceive your opponent, sense him, and never use your imagination. The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you. From
Adam Johnson
#15. When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
Samuel Dash
#16. Half the fun is getting to play dress-up and imagine what it's like to be this other person. If you're not excited about a part where you get to use your imagination, then what's the point in doing it? It'll be just another job. Also, Director Michael Pressman and I see eye-to-eye with Marie.
Zoe Kazan
#17. Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
Adam Johnson
#18. Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.
Mary Balogh
#19. Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful.
Oprah Winfrey
#20. I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.
Elle Fanning
#21. The best way to be unique and set ourselves apart from Society is to create. Use your imagination and apply action towards it.
Matthew Donnelly
#22. There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that.
Lewis Grizzard
#23. Use your imagination," I tell my students these days, "or someone else is going to use it for you.
Ronald Sukenick
#24. I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.
Katy Perry
#25. The god laughed darkly. "Let's just say I made sure he was playing on our team."
Curious, I started to ask how, but Apollo grinned at me. "Use your imagination," he said, and my imagination went to some really weird places.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#26. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.
Roger Ebert
#27. The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense.
Jemaine Clement
#28. It [science fiction] really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.
Steven Spielberg
#29. Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
Joyce Cary
#30. If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude ... I hope to make you use your imagination.
Hedy Lamarr
#31. When you use your imagination, it is a bit like putting on night-vision goggles to see forms in the shadows of your head, heart, and spirit.
Deborah Sandella
#33. If you don't use your imagination someone else will use it for you.
Ron Sukenick
#34. Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.
Esther Hicks
#35. Don't be afraid to really use your imagination. Let it run wild. It's one of the most powerful tools you've got.
Laird Hamilton
#36. Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.
Rodolfo Costa
#37. Wonderful things are possible when you dream big and use your imagination.
Cat Michaels
#38. Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
W.P. Kinsella
#39. I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.
Mark Ruffalo
#40. When you use your imagination anything can happen.
Michael Phelps
#41. Experience has taught me this: you've done everything you needed to do, and there's no sense in rehashing it. All you can do now is wait for the race. And what instinct has taught me is one thing only: use your imagination.
Haruki Murakami
#42. People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland ... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.
Sue Grafton
#43. To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.
Elle Fanning
#44. Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#45. I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that's a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.
Noel Fielding
#46. There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.
Jill Clayburgh
#47. There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?
Lemmy Kilmister
#48. ...All they were interested in was where she planned to get her tattoo.
"You're just going to have to use your imagination," she told them.
Cooper snorted. "Becker is screwed then. He doesn't have any imagination.
Paige Tyler
#50. When my mom was alive, she read me stories every night. "Use your imagination, Lorelei," she'd say, "and your whole life can be a fairy tale." I wanted that to be true. But I should have paid more attention to the fairy tales.
Nikki Loftin
#51. You can keep your mind open and use your imagination and be creative even when you're older. For kids, I definitely think keeping your mind open and using your imagination and being able to play pretend and that it's okay.
AnnaSophia Robb
#52. Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think that had a lot to do with me wanting write. And write songs
Taylor Swift
#53. Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
Action Bronson
#54. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.
Lemmy Kilmister
#55. Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you read the lyrics, there isn't a story being set up for you. You have to use your imagination to get the best out of the songs - if you choose to do that.
Linda Perry
#56. Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do.
Christian D. Larson
#57. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?
[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]
Lemmy Kilmister
#59. Make no mistake- you can change things. Question everything, take nothing for granted; argue with all received ideas, don't respect what does not deserve respect; speak your mind, don't censor yourself; use your imagination and express what it tells you to express. These are the weapons of the mind.
Salman Rushdie
#60. When you have a lot of books,you don't have to worry about getting bored unless you don't know the essence of reading.Reading is not just about reading,you have to use your imagination,make the characters alive and be one of them,feel them ... and presto,you'll never be alone!
Mareez Reyes
#61. [While voicing] you have to create a feeling for what happened before a scene, what's going to happen after a scene, and what you are doing in a scene. You need to use your imagination even more and once your emotions are up, then your voice and expressions will go accordingly.
James Hong
#62. It's fun to pretend you're a little kid, you get to use your imagination and live in a world that's not real.
Lucy Hale
#63. People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.
Matthew Bourne
#64. It's always more intriguing to imagine what's happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.
Sofia Coppola
#65. If you don't use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you.
Ronald Sukenick
#66. My production style is all about imagination. I want my audience to use their imagination when they watch my videos. My goal is for my voice to be that little hope of encouragement in your head when you walk out your door.
Michelle Phan
#67. Birds have wings to fly in the sky; you have an imagination to fly everywhere.
Debasish Mridha
#68. All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.
Madonna Ciccone
#69. In order to execute the idea, you need a certain material that is going to allow you to do what you're challenged to do in your imagination. You should use whatever you can and it's amazing how even if you change the medium, your work is still yours.
Michelle Stuart
#70. I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.
Pierce Brosnan
#71. Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.
Ray Davies
#72. What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?
Carolyn Wells
#73. Stop rehearsing life's failures. Use your beautiful imagination to visualize success.
Cheryl Richardson
#74. Your mind is your greatest power. Use it well.
Aneta Cruz
#75. Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.
Donald L. Hicks
#76. Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
Wayne Dyer
#77. Don't use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.
Stella Adler
#78. Think about where you'd like to be a year from now and use every bit of your imagination to visualize it. You'll need to do this with a serious intent if you want to make your wishes your reality.
Karen McQuestion
#79. A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My novels or my stories come to me visually. I use words to translate the novel I see inside my head into words that I hope will create a movie inside your head.
Jay Neugeboren
#80. As an actor the best thing you have is your imagination. You're not going to have all the experiences, but you draw on the things that you know. So I think you definitely use the things that you're familiar with to your advantage.
Vince Vaughn
#81. You learn something from the classics but your feelings and your imagination operate in the domain of the colloquial. We need to think seriously about reforming the Arabic that we use today.
Hassan Blasim
#82. I said that we use digital "passbacks" to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you. Of
Sherry Turkle
#83. If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.
Napoleon Hill
#84. Know whatever comes to you unexpected to be a gift from God, which will surely serve you if you use it to the fullest. It is only that which you strive for out of your own imagination, that gives you trouble.
Brandon Bays
#85. Gather knowledge ... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs ... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.
Nita Leland
#86. If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)
Malcolm Gladwell
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