Famous Quotes about Imagination (143 Quotations)

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.

Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

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.

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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?

I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

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.

I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

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.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

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.

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

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

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.

Imagination decides everything.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.