“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
As quoted in Sunday Herald Sun [Melbourne, Australia] (13 January 2003)]
Variant: Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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English singer and songwriter 1940–1980Related quotes
“To leave is to die a little, but to die is to leave a lot.”
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Partir, c'est mourir un peu... mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.
A pun on the first verse of the poem Rondel de l'adieu by Edmond Haraucourt.
As Quoted in Rati's personal diaries https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7709871.Rati_Tsiteladze
Source: The Division of Labor in Society (1893), p. 129 (in 1933 edition, lushqoutes https://lushquotes.com/dream-quotes-collection-part-6/)
“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
“Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.”
Address http://www.ted.com/talks/james_cameron_before_avatar_a_curious_boy.html/ to the 2010 TED conference (13 February 2010)
Context: Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. … Don’t put limitations on yourself. Other people will do that for you. Don’t do that to yourself. Don’t bet against yourself. And take risk. NASA has this phrase that they like, "Failure is not an option." But failure has to be an option. In art and exploration, failure has to be an option. Because it is a leap of faith. And no important endeavour that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks. … In whatever you are doing, failure is an option. But fear is not.