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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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Books about Imagination
