The Imagination Quotes

The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.

The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.

Never abandon imagination

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

Soul, a particle of God, is blessed with the gift of creative imagination, which finds a solution for every problem.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

Truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon facts.

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire.

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

Embrace reality by imagination.

I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.

It's our imagination that's responsible for love, not the other person.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.