Quote: When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether. Author: Marian Anderson 1902-1993, American Contralto Concert and Opera Singer
Quote: Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours. Author: Dr. Robert Anthony American educator
Quote: Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Author: Lauren Bacall 1924-, American Actress
Quote: ''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.'' Author: Richard Bach 1936-, American Author
Quote: Man is an imagining being. Author: Gaston Bachelard 1884-1962, French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist
Quote: The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy. Author: Madame Belazy
Quote: Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. Author: E. T. Bell
Quote: The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. Author: John Berger 1926-, British Actor, Critic
Quote: If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968. Author: Sandra Bernhard 1955, American Actress
Quote: The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. Author: Robert Bierstedt
Quote: To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason? Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: What is now proved was only once imagined. Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: Imagination rules the world. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
Quote: The human race is governed by its imagination. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
Quote: By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment. Author: Dorothea Brande American Success Writer
Quote: To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be. Author: Andre Breton 1989-1966, French Surrealist
Quote: The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there. Author: Gene Brown
Quote: Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. Author: Luis Bunuel 1900-1983, Spanish Film Director
Quote: Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in. Author: Rachel Carson 1907-1964, American Marine Biologist, Author
Quote: People can die of mere imagination. Author: Geoffrey Chaucer 1340-1400, British Poet
Quote: Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create! Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: Pictures help you to form the mental mold... Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building -- steadily building. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be. Author: Billy Connelly
Quote: Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. Author: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist
Quote: The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. Author: Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929, American Sociologist
Quote: Death is the tyrant of the imagination. Author: Barry Cornwall
Quote: When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. Author: Emile CouT 1857-1926, French Pharmacist, Hypnotist, Pioneer
Quote: Live out of your imagination, not your history. Author: Stephen R. Covey American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''
Quote: We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it. Author: Donald Curtis
Quote: I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives. Author: Stephen Devore
Quote: The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated. Author: Mack R. Douglas
Quote: Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Science does not know its debt to imagination. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be. Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878-1969, American Minister
Quote: Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. Author: J. G. Gallimore
Quote: Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it. Author: Charles A. Garfield American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer
Quote: Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. Author: Jules de Gaultier
Quote: Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. Author: Ralph Gerard
Quote: There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. Author: Ursula K. Le Guin 1929-, American Author
Quote: All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: Capability means imagination... Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the ''as if'' technique. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Imagination is the eye of the soul. Author: Joseph Joubert 1754-1824, French Moralist
Quote: One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Author: Joseph Joubert 1754-1824, French Moralist
Quote: All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Quote: Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Quote: My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. Author: John Keats 1795-1821, British Poet
Quote: Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
Quote: The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
Quote: Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us. Author: Peter Kline American Peak Performance Expert
Quote: We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have ''crossed bridges'' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd. Author: Speakers Library
Quote: Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment. Author: Paul Mallory
Quote: Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself. Author: Maxwell Maltz American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''
Quote: For imagination sets the goal ''picture'' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ''will,'' as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. Author: Maxwell Maltz American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''
Quote: Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead. Author: Maxwell Maltz American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''
Quote: Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability. Author: Maxwell Maltz American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''
Quote: When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative ''success mechanism'' within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or ''willpower.'' Author: Maxwell Maltz American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''
Quote: Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. Author: Paul Mccartney 1942-, British Pop Star, Composer, Songwriter, Member of ''Beatles''
Quote: We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment. Author: John Mcdonald
Quote: It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. Author: George Meredith 1828-1909, British Author
Quote: Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it. Author: Alex Morrison
Quote: The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity. Author: Malcolm Muggeridge 1903-1990, British Broadcaster
Quote: Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. Author: Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977, Russian-born American Novelist, Poet
Quote: A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. Author: Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727, British Scientist, Mathematician
Quote: I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality. Author: Jack Nicklaus 1940-, American Golfer
Quote: It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income. Author: Leonard Orr
Quote: Imagination decides everything. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? Author: Cesare Pavese 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator
Quote: Celebrate what you want to see more of. Author: Thomas J. Peters 1942-, American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer
Quote: Everything you can imagine is real. Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist
Quote: It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. Author: Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer
Quote: It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images. Author: Ezra Pound 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
Quote: Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much. Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist
Quote: I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money. Author: George Weiss Rainbow 1940-, British Eccentric
Quote: The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized. Author: Mary Caroline Richards
Quote: An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold. Author: Marquis De Sade 1740-1814, French Author
Quote: The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? Author: Marquis De Sade 1740-1814, French Author
Quote: Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks. Author: Saying
Quote: Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities. Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader
Quote: The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen. Author: Robert L Schwartz
Quote: Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself. Author: Rod Serling 1924-1975, American Television Script-writer
Quote: Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories. Author: P.K. Shaw
Quote: The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet
Quote: When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience. Author: Grace Speare
Quote: The imagination is man's power over nature. Author: Wallace Stevens 1879-1955, American Poet
Quote: To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. Author: Wallace Stevens 1879-1955, American Poet
Quote: By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true. Author: Success Magazine American Business Magazine
Quote: Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way. Author: Nikola Tesla 1856-1943, Croatian Physicist and Electrical Engineer
Quote: I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are? Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions. Author: Thomas Troward
Quote: You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If you clearly and vividly IMAGINE yourself in the first person doing, being, having the things and qualities you truly want... then you will be using positive imagination to begin a change to fulfilling that image. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: You must pre-live the future... not re-live the past... and savor the moment. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. Author: Jules Verne 1828-1905, French Writer
Quote: Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination. Author: Stephen Vizinczey 1933-, Hungarian Novelist, Critic
Quote: I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Quote: We are what we imagine ourselves to be. Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1922-, American Novelist
Quote: Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example! Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. Author: William A. Ward 1921-,
Quote: Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life. Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic
Quote: Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic
Quote: Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: What you see is what you get. Author: Flip Wilson 1933-, American Actor, Comedian
Quote: An idea is salvation by imagination. Author: Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959, American Architect
Quote: First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be. Author: Peter Nivio Zarlenga American Businessman, Founder of Blockbuster Videos
Quote: The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: ''I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind.'' Author: Bernie Zilbergeld
Quote: The journey begins, where your imagination ends. Author: Shahazad
Quote: I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Author: Michelangelo
Quote: A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Quote: I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. Author: Dr. Seuss
Quote: Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. Author: James D. Finley
Quote: Some stories are true that never happened. Author: Elie Weisel
Quote: It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. Author: Lewis Carroll
Quote: My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around! Author: Dr. Seuss
Quote: The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. Author: William Shakespeare
Quote: They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Author: Francis Bacon
Quote: A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Quote: Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! Author: Dr. Seuss
Quote: A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant. Author: Unknown
Quote: Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. Author: George S. Patton
Quote: The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. Author: Frank Barron
Quote: You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Author: Mark Twain
Quote: Don't expect anything original from an echo. Author: Unknown
Quote: I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. Author: Pablo Picasso
Quote: When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint. Author: Lewis Carroll
Quote: You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. Author: Jack London
Quote: Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. Author: Norman Podhoretz
Quote: They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Quote: There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. Author: G. K. Chesterton
Quote: Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Author: Lewis Carroll
Quote: There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. Author: Ansel Adams
Quote: Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. Author: Simone Weil
Quote: Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. Author: Stephen Leacock
Quote: When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. Author: Vincent Van Gogh
Quote: Trust that little voice in your head that says Wouldn't it be interesting if... And then do it. Author: Duane Michals
Quote: Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. Author: George Scialabba
Quote: It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Author: Henry David Thoreau
Quote: Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be. Author: Dennis Gunton
Quote: Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature. Author: Jean Baitaillon
Quote: Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. Author: Jessamyn West
Quote: People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. Author: William Butler Yeats
Quote: I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Quote: Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Author: Albert Szent-Györgyi
Quote: I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. Author: Duane Michals
Quote: I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. Author: Calvin Trillin
Quote: To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. Author: George Kneller
Quote: It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. Author: Paul Gauguin
Quote: Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment. Author: Paul Mallory
Quote: Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. Author: Samuel Johsnon
Quote: Minds, like parachutes, only work when open. Author: Anonymous
Quote: 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. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: You see things and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were and say, Why not? Author: George Bernard Shaw
Quote: The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Quote: I feel more like I do right now than when I got here. Author: Richard Elwin Spurgeon
Quote: No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality. Author: Ellen Glasgow
Quote: I like being the creator better than being the created. Author: Anonymous
Quote: There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. Author: Edmund Burke
Quote: The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination. Author: Emily Dickinson
Quote: I imagine, therefore I belong and am free. Author: Lawrence Durrell
Quote: There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: Imagination is the eye of the soul. Author: Joseph Joubert
Quote: I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. Author: John Keats
Quote: The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. Author: John F. Kennedy
Quote: My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Quote: Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young. Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Quote: To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. Author: Wallace Stevens
Quote: Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. Author: Simone Weil
Quote: Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money. Author: George Weiss
Quote: Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. Author: Unknown
Quote: Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. Author: Jules de Gautier
Quote: The source and center of all man's creative power. . . is his power of making images, or the power of imagination. Author: Robert Collier
Quote: We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have crossed bridges in their imagination far ahead of the crowd. Author: Speakers Library
Quote: Our aspirations are our possibilities. Author: Robert Browning
Quote: Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think. Author: George Bernard Shaw
Quote: The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building --steadily building. Author: Robert Collier
Quote: For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. Author: Maxwell Maltz
Quote: Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Author: Louisa May Alcott
Quote: The empires of the future are empires of the mind. Author: Winston Churchill
Quote: First comes thought, then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. Author: Napolean Hill
Quote: The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. . . He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen. Author: Robert L. Schwartz
Quote: I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel. Author: Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Quote: You will become as small as your controlling desire; or as great as your dominant aspiration. Author: James Allen
Quote: The only limits are, as always, those of vision. Author: James Broughton
Quote: Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blue prints of your ultimate achievements. Author: Napolean Hill
Quote: When you cease to dream you cease to live. Author: Malcolm S. Forbes
Quote: Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. Author: J. G. Gallimore
Quote: Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative. Author: Oscar Wilde
Quote: Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork and picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Author: Tom Stoppard
Quote: To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Author: Thomas Alva Edison
Quote: Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. Author: George Bernard Shaw
Quote: An idea is salvation by imagination. Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Quote: Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. Author: Charles F. Kettering
Quote: Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Quote: Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Quote: Imagination rules the world. Author: Napolean
Quote: Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. Author: Robert Collier
Quote: Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. Author: Unknown
Quote: Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason. Author: Unknown
Quote: Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. Author: Voltaire
Quote: A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Quote: Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. Author: Austin O'Malley
Quote: Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Quote: Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Quote: Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Author: Oscar Wilde
Quote: Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on. Author: Unknown
Quote: Reality is for people who lack imagination. Author: Unknown
Quote: Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. Author: Henry Havelock Ellis