Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-George Smith Patton
"War as I Knew It"
Quotations
Imagination
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
-Jules Verne
Reality cannot breathe without imagination.
-Lionel Suggs
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will.
-John Green
"Paper Towns"
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
-Richard Bach
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
-G. K. Chesterton
I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy; those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
-Susan Sarandon "Susan Sarandon"
