Quotes - Julianne Rhodes (Justin, TX) Showing 1-29 of 29

#1

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
― Beatrix Potter

tags: creativity, education, self-education, uniqueness

#2

“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. ”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: creativity, widsom

282 likes

#3

“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

2312 likes

#4

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

14694 likes

#5

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: 1929, viereck-interview

37558 likes

#6

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

tags: imagination

3639 likes

#7

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence

4220 likes

#8

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, fantasy, imagination, inspirational

2480 likes

#9

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: fantasy, imagination

779 likes

#10

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”
― John Keats

tags: imagination, love, truth

945 likes

#11

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
― Sidney Sheldon

724 likes

#12

“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
― Walt Disney

526 likes

#13

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: dream, imagination, reality, war

1784 likes

#14

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

tags: imagination, reality

445 likes

#15

“An idea is salvation by imagination”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

tags: art, imagination, inspirational

265 likes

#16

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
― Francis Bacon

tags: humor, imagination

340 likes

#17

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: empathy, imagination, innovation, invention

218 likes

#18

“My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk”
― John Keats

tags: imagination, monastery

250 likes

#19

“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
― George Eliot

314 likes

#20

“The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: imagination, possibility

107 likes

#21

“Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

tags: childhood, imagination

177 likes

#22

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: imagination, insanity, logic-reason, poets

111 likes

#23

“I try all things, I achieve what I can.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: moby-dick

530 likes

#24

“and Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.”
― Herman Melville

279 likes

#25

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

67 likes

#26

“Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick oder Der Wal

37 likes

#27

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: problem-solving

774 likes

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