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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.
-Andre Gide
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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Books about Imagination
