Imagination Quotes
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.Napoleon Hill
An idea is salvation by imagination.Frank Lloyd Wright
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common - Sense.Helen Rowland
The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, 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 bit, but steadily building, steadily building.Robert Collie
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.Marcus Valerius Martialis
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.Stephen Hawking
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.David Bailey
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gautie
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.Henry David Thoreau
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.John Dewey
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.Arnold J. Toynbee
Memory feeds imagination.Amy Tan
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.Arthur Wing Pinero
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.Emile Coue
It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science - Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells".
Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.Lauren Becall
Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is.Oscar Wilde
Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.Gloria Steinem
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.Lawrence George Durrell
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
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.Lauren Bacall
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.Robert J. Collie
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.Plato
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.Bruce Lee
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.Charles F. Kettering
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
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.John Keats
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
