Imagination Quotes - Page 14

• While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Art, Reality

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires”, p.23, Hay House, Inc

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• Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Arundel MSS British Museum (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1)

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• I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

  Elinor Wylie

  Heaven, Inheritance, Able

  Elinor Wylie (1934). “The Novels of Elinor Wylie”

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• All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!

  Saul Bellow

  Accomplishment, Enough, Force

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• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

  e. e. cummings

  Knowledge, Buried, Polite

  1951 'Jottings', in Wake, no.10.

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• The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Moral, Instruments, Positive Atheism

  1821 A Defence of Poetry.

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• Nothing happens unless first we dream.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Inspiration, Literature

  Carl Sandburg, Arnie Bernstein (2000). “The Movies are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928”, p.7, Lake Claremont Press

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• Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

  John Muir

  Real, Fantasy, Infinite

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

  Donald Curtis

  Art, Creativity, Intuition

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• The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is

  Bertrand Russell

  Taken, Alternatives, World

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Our Knowledge of the External World”, p.6, Routledge

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• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

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• Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Horse, Flying

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• Imagination is the true magic carpet.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Art, Magic

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Motivational, Eye, Winning

  "Personality and Life : A Practical Guide to Personality Improvement". Book by Jay N. Holliday, 1941.

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  The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Leadership, Writing, Creativity

  "The Tweaker" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2011.

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• My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

  John Keats

  Atheism, Literature, Monk

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.883, e-artnow

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• The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities.

  Frank Barron

  Order, Giving, Creative

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• You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

  Rita Dove

  Women, Impossible, Imagine

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• Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.273

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• Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Art, Writing

  Some Reminiscences ch. 1 (1912)

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• People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

  Sydney Smith

  Loyalty, People, Greatest Love

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• Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you can function in an area without much information.

  Paul Bley

  Music, Information, Jazz

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• The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Life, Cute, Courage

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

  Brennan Manning

  Mind, Storytelling, Impression

  Brennan Manning (2013). “NIV, Ragamuffin Bible, eBook: Meditations for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Brokenhearted”, p.2106, Harper Collins

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