Imagination Quotes

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. — Samuel Johnson
What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. — Emile Coue
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing… — William Hazlitt
The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness,… — Wilferd Peterson
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse… — William Hazlitt
Curiosity is the main energy. — Robert Rauschenberg
To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. — William Blake
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. — Antonio Gaudi
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the… — Thomas Paine
The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is… — Charles Baudelaire
Only in your imagination can you revise. — Fay Wray
We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values.… — William J. Clinton
To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's… — Bill Gates
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination… — Samuel Johnson
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this… — William Blake
The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part… — Albert Einstein
Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how… — Jim Rohn
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper. — George William Curtis

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