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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. Le Guin
When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether. Marian Anderson
The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there. Gene Brown
We are what we imagine ourselves to be. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Imagination rules the world. Napoleon Bonaparte
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. George Meredith
People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories. P.K. Shaw
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life. Simone Weil
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. John Keats
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Lauren Bacall
What you see is what you get. Flip Wilson
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. Denis Waitley
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is an imagining being. Gaston Bachelard
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. Edgar Allan Poe
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
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
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. William A. Ward
People can die of mere imagination. Geoffrey Chaucer
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. John Ruskin
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. Jules de Gaultier
You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself. Rod Serling
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. Henry Ward Beecher
The imagination is man's power over nature. Wallace Stevens
To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.'' Richard Bach
Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be. Anonymous
Celebrate what you want to see more of. Thomas J. Peters
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. Emile Cout
If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968. Sandra Bernhard
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. Jules Verne
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
Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy. Madame Belazy
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. Ralph Gerard
Death is the tyrant of the imagination. Barry Cornwall
Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. J. G. Gallimore
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. Albert Einstein
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build. Robert Collier
You must pre-live the future... not re-live the past... and savor the moment. Anonymous
Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. Les Brown
Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks. Saying
The man who has no imagination has no wings. Muhammad Ali
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. Henry Miller
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
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. Charles Horton Cooley
Imagination decides everything. Blaise Pascal
I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money. George Weiss Rainbow
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
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
Imagination is the eye of the soul. Joseph Joubert
There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. Charles F. Kettering
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination. Anonymous
The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen. Robert L Schwartz
Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen R. Covey
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
See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. Robert Collier
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
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. Albert Einstein
Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment. Paul Mallory
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
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. Samuel Johnson
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
The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated. Mack R. Douglas
We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much. Marcel Proust
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
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Albert Einstein
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
It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around. Anonymous
The human race is governed by its imagination. Napoleon Bonaparte
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
In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts. Albert Einstein
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. Thomas Carlyle
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment. Dorothea Brande
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man. Napoleon Hill
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized. Mary Caroline Richards
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
What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. Henry David Thoreau
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
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. Paul Mccartney
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
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. John Ruskin
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
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it. Donald Curtis
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. John Ruskin
You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it. Alex Morrison
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. Speakers Library
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 Mcdonald
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities. Robert H. Schuller
By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true. Success Magazine
Capability means imagination... Napoleon Hill
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
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
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
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
Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso
An idea is salvation by imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason. Anonymous
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. Anonymous
What is now proved was only once imagined. William Blake
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
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
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in. Rachel Carson
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 F. Kettering
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 Jung
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. Carl Jung
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. Albert Einstein
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the ''as if'' technique. William James
Pictures help you to form the mental mold... Robert Collier
Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours. Dr. Robert Anthony
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. Blaise Pascal
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income. Leonard Orr
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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