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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
-Anon.
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When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.
-Marian Anderson
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Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.
-Dr. Robert Anthony
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Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
-Louis Aragon
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-Lauren Bacall
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We think, sometimes, there's not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests, enchanting deer and butterflies with her smile.What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure ...not only are they here-and-now, they're all that ever lived on earth!Our century, they've changed clothes, of course. Dragons wear government-costumes, today, and failure-suits and disaster-outfits. Society's demons screech, whirl down on us should we lift our eyes from the ground, dare we turn right at corners we've been told to turn left. So crafty have appearances become that princesses and knights can be hidden from each other, can be hidden from themselves.
-Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever, preface, 1984
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To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
-Richard Bach
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Man is an imagining being.
-Gaston Bachelard
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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people
-Francis Bacon
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The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
-Mary Catherine Bateson, With a Daughter's Eye, 1984
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.
-Madame Belazy
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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.
-E. T. Bell
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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.
-John Berger, The Soul and the Operator, in Expressen (Stockholm), March 19, 1990
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If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.
-Sandra Bernhard
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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.
-Robert Bierstedt
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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?
-William Blake
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What is now proved was only once imagined.
-William Blake
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To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
First published by Rossetti in Gilchrist's Life of William Blake (1863), it was composed between 1800 - 1803 http://www.artofeurope.com/blake/bla3.htm
-William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Imagination rules the world.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
-Dorothea Brande
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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.
-Andre Breton
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When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.
-Lou Brock
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The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
-Gene Brown
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Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
-Les Brown
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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.
-Luis Bunuel
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
-Edmund Burke
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
-Thomas Carlyle
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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.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.
-Kim Cattrall, Interview by Dan Scapperotti in Femme Fatales Magazine, Volume 5, Number 8.
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People can die of mere imagination.
-Chaucer
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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.
-Robert Collier
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Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
-Robert Collier
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See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
-Robert Collier
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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...
-Robert Collier
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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!
-Robert Collier
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I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
-Billy Connelly
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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.
-Joseph Conrad
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
-Charles Horton Cooley
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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
-Barry Cornwall
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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
-Emile Coue
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-Stephen Covey
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We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
-Donald Curtis
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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?
-Marquis De Sade
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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.
-Marquis De Sade
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
-Marquis De Sade
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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.
-Stephen Devore
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
-Walt Disney
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The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.
-Mack R. Douglas
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
-Albert Einstein
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
-Albert Einstein
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
-Albert Einstein
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In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
-Albert Einstein
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
-Albert Einstein, What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck, "Saturday Evening Post", October 26, 1929
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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.
-Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting and the Problems of Production, ch. 3, by Alexander Woollcott (1917)
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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.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
-Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvester Bernard, 1881
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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.
-Charles A. Garfield
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Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
-Jules de Gautier
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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-Ralph Gerard
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
-Andr, Feuilles de route
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We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
-William Hazlitt
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The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
-Napoleon Hill
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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.
-Napoleon Hill
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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
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Capability means imagination...
-Napoleon Hill
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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.
-Napoleon Hill
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Play the glass,Perform the glassWith a motion of the glass,with one breath,a multitude of tones are played on the glassThe glass like a living bodygrows and changes its formAll th shapes played by the glass resound with beautyWhen blowing the glass I feel like a maestroThen suddenly come to myselfand I am just a child playing with soap bubbles
-Hiruomi, source unknown
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Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .
-Shirley Jackson, The Bird's Nest (pt. IV), 1954
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.
-William James
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
-Samuel Johnson
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
-Joseph Joubert
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
-Joseph Joubert
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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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.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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... for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are. You see it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
-Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.
-Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
-Franz Kafka
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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 ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
-John Keats
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
-John Keats
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Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'
NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.
-Robert Francis Kennedy
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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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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.
-Peter Kline
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
-Ursula K. LeGuin
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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.
-John D. MacDonald
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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.
-Paul Mallory
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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.
-Maxwell Maltz
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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.
-Maxwell Maltz
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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.
-Maxwell Maltz
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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.
-Maxwell Maltz
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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.
-Maxwell Maltz
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
-Paul McCartney
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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.
-H. L. Mencken
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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
-George Meredith
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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
-Henry Miller
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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 not bring forth in the agitation.
-Michel de Montaigne
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You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.
-Alex Morrison
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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.
-Malcolm Muggeridge
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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.
-Vladimir Nabokov
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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.
-Sir Isaac Newton
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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.
-Jack Nicklaus
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You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock? Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night -- I changed the lock!
-John Boyle O'Reilly
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It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
-Leonard Orr
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.
-Blaise Pascal
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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
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
-Thomas J. Peters
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Everything you can imagine is real.
-Pablo Picasso
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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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.
-Ezra Pound
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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
-Marcel Proust
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I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.
-George Weiss Rainbow
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The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
-Mary Caroline Richards
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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.
-John Ruskin
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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
-John Ruskin
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
-John Ruskin
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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
-John Ruskin
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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
-Robert H. Schuller
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Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
-Rod Serling
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You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.
-Rod Serling, introduction to the original Twilight Zone
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I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. Its a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of lifes realities.
-Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
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You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'
the serpent saying to Eve
-George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
-George Bernard Shaw
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People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.
-P.K. Shaw
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
-Charles Simic
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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.
-Grace Speare
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Skaters by their very nature are urban guerillas: they make everyday use of the useless artifacts of the technological burden, and employ the handiwork of the government/corporate structure in a thousand ways that the original architects could never dream of.
-Craig Stecyk
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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.
-Wallace Stevens
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
-Wallace Stevens
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-Tom Stoppard
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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.
-Nikola Tesla
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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?
-Henry David Thoreau
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
-Henry David Thoreau
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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.
-Thomas Troward
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You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus.
-Mark Twain
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Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
-Source Unknown
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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.
-Source Unknown
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You must pre-live the future... not re-live the past... and savor the moment.
-Source Unknown
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Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
-Source Unknown
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It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.
-Source Unknown
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Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
-Source Unknown
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
-Jules Verne
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Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
-Stephen Vizinczey
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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.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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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!
-Denis Waitley
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You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
-Denis Waitley
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
-William Arthur Ward
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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.
-Simone Weil
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.
-Simone Weil
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There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,
And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,
Or for many years or streching eyeless years,
The early lilacs became part of the child,
And grass and white and red morning-glories and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird...
-Walt Whitman
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Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
-Oscar Wilde
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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.
-Oscar Wilde
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The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
-Oscar Wilde
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What you see is what you get.
-Flip Wilson
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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.
-Peter Nivio Zarlenga
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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.
-Peter Nivio Zarlenga
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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.
-Bernie Zilbergeld
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Books about Imagination
