Quotes about imagination

"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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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."

Einstein, Albert on imagination   

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts."

Einstein, Albert on imagination   

"What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on imagination   

"The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on imagination   

"We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on imagination   

"Science does not know its debt to imagination."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on imagination   

"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on imagination
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"Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on imagination   

"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."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on imagination   

"Image creates desire. You will what you imagine."

Gallimore, J. G. on imagination   

"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."

Garfield, Charles A. on imagination   

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."

Gaultier, Jules de on imagination
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"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them."

Gerard, Ralph on imagination
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"There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on imagination   

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on imagination
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"The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man."

Hill, Napoleon on imagination   

"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."

Hill, Napoleon on imagination
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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."

Hill, Napoleon on imagination
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"Capability means imagination..."

Hill, Napoleon on imagination   

"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."

Hill, Napoleon on imagination   

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique."

James, William on imagination
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"Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess."

Johnson, Samuel on imagination   

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."

Joubert, Joseph on imagination   

"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."

Joubert, Joseph on imagination   

"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."

Jung, Carl on imagination
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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."

Jung, Carl on imagination
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"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."

Keats, John on imagination   

"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."

Kettering, Charles F. on imagination   

"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."

Kettering, Charles F. on imagination
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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."

Kline, Peter on imagination   

"We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have crossed bridges in their imagination far ahead of the crowd."

Library, Speakers on imagination   

"Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment."

Mallory, Paul on imagination   

"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on imagination   

"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on imagination   

"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on imagination   

"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on imagination   

"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on imagination