Imagination Quotes

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve." — Napoleon Hill
As quoted in Self-Motivation Through Risk Taking! : Are You Leading Or Do You Wither with Problems? (2005) As one of the pioneers of self-empowerment literature, this quote is famously attributed to Hill, though no further specific contextual information is available. Add Category or Author

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world" — Albert Einstein
Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) pg. 97 The quote continues, "...stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research." Add Category or Author

"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
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"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." — Albert Einstein
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"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it." — William Ward
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"Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination." — Marcel Proust
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"Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another." — Mark Twain
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds." — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination." — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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"Science does not know its debt to imagination." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"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
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"I reject your reality and substitute it for my own." — Adam Savage
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"My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!" — Dr. Seuss
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"Never in my wildest imagination did I think she would survive. I thought that would be a dead horse we would be looking at the next morning." — Lynn Seaba
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"I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist." — Ralph Ellison
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"By no measure of the imagination did we have joint defenses." — Rodney Barnes
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"There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth." — Jean Giraudoux
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"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 Garfield
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"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth." — Jean Giraudoux
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"We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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