Imagination Quotes
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.Thomas A. Edison
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as 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.Norman Vincent Peale
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
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. .. And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.Michel de Montaigne
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.J. R. R. Tolkien
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.Christopher Isherwood
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.Ursula K. LeGuin
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.Jean Jacques Rousseau
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.Dominique Bouhours
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein
So you see, imagination needs moodling - Long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.Brenda Ueland
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.Gloria Steinem
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.Israel Lipkin
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.Noam Chomsky
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.Richard Hofstadte
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.Simone Weil
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
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gautie
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.Arthur Wing Pinero
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.Carl Sagan
I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.Ursula K. LeGuin
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.Napoleon Hill
Imagination rules the world.Napoleon I
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.W. Somerset Maugham
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.Dr. Maxwell Maltz
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.Marquis de Sade
Worry is a misuse of imagination.Dan Zadra
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.William Carlos Williams
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
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
