Imagination Quotes

4096 Imagination quotes by 2387 unique authors

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function. — Jules Feiffer
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are… — George Eliot
The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything. — Federico Fellini
The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations. — Albert Ellis
I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another world of the… — Kelsey Grammer
Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action - which then… — Dan Miller
Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting a wonderful new… — Neville Goddard
Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning. — Marshall Ganz
Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination... — Doris Humphrey
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while… — Wallace Stevens
Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail. — Wallace Stevens
The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize… — John Dewey
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you. — Byron Katie
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. — Napoleon Hill
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. — Bell Hooks
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries. — George Berkeley
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events,… — John Henry Newman
Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination. — Plato
A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless… — W. Somerset Maugham
History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby… — Oswald Spengler
Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called… — Edward Hallowell
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a… — Edna Ferber
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes… — W. Somerset Maugham
Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to… — Sam Snead

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