Imagination Quotes

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

Albert Einstein

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein

There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination.

George Eliot

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

Capability means imagination...

Napoleon Hill

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

Napoleon Hill

Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

Napoleon Hill

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Henry Ward Beecher

Usually I say I have no imagination.

Jose Padilha

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Dorthea Brande

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Josh Billings

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Jerzy Kosinski

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Derek Jacobi

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

Peter Mullan

I've always had an active imagination.

Rickie Lee Jones

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

Jean Claude Duvalier