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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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Books about Imagination
