Imagination Quotes
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 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
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.Lord Byron
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.Jose Vasconcelos
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
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
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.Charles De Gaulle
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
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
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.Voltaire
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.Dr. Robert Schulle
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
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
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.Harry S Truman
So you see, imagination needs moodling - Long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.Brenda Ueland
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.Voltaire
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.Henry Louis Mencken
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.Simone Weil
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.W. Somerset Maugham
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
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?Cesare Pavese
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.Carl Jung
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.Lauren Bacall
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.Honore De Balzac
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
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.Anon.
Memory feeds imagination.Amy Tan
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.Robert Collie
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
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
