Imagination Quotes - Page 18

• When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

  Emile Coue

  Winning, Conflict, Will Power

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• You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

  Saul Bellow

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Bellow in his own words". www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2005.

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• Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

  Theodore Levitt

  Change, Creativity, Thinking

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• I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

  John Lennon

  Teamwork, Dream, Hope

  Song: Imagine

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• You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Dream, Hope

  Song: Imagine

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• The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

  Frank Barron

  Photography, Creativity, Carpe Diem

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• Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

  Noah Richler

  People, Alive, Cruelty

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• Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Giving, Form, Computation

  L. Ron Hubbard (1987). “Self Analysis”, p.277, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.

  Napoleon Hill

  Achievement, Soul, Individual

  "Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success".

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• Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

  Peter Sotos

  Fashion, Thinking, Ideas

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• A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.

  William Rosenberg

  Passion, Leader, Excellence

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• Imagination is the one weapon against reality.

  Jules de Gaultier

  Reality, Weapons

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• Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and believe are yesterday’s news.

  Jon Rappoport

  Believe, Thinking, Yesterday

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• We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

  Newton N. Minow

  Creativity, People, Creative

  Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC

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• I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Thinking, Balloons, Inward

  Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.84, Bantam

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• If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

  George Takei

  Profound, Connections, Purpose

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• For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Trying, Tools, Stories

  Leah Hager Cohen (2014). “No Book but the World: A Novel”, p.180, Penguin

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• The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

  Johan Huizinga

  Ideas, Rainbow, Eternal

  Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, Routledge/Thoemms Press

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• Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Lying, Keys, Never Forget

  "The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill".

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• Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Intuition, Weak, Linear

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• Think the unthinkable,
  Imagine the impossible
  Pursue the imaginations limits.

  Allan Weisbecker

  Dream, Thinking, Limits

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• Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

  Max Lucado

  Christmas, Logic

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• The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

  David Lilienthal

  Moving, Men, Mind

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• Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

  Plato

  Wise, Giving, Soul

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• What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

  Chris Abani

  Stories, Agents, Shapes

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