My Imagination Quotes

• My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

  John Steinbeck

  Imagination, One Day, Hell

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.156, Penguin

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• Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once (gleich dies zusammen). What a delight this is I cannot tell ! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing lively dream.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Dream, Imagination, Delight

  "Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart".

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  Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

  Leo Burnett

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Thinking

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

  John Dewey

  Change, Creativity, Science

  The Quest for Certainty Ch. 11

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• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Knowledge

  "János : The Story of a Doctor" by János Plesch, translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1947.

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• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Imagination, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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

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• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Powerful, Writing, Creativity

  "The Summing Up" by W. Somerset Maugham, Doubleday, Doran & Co., (p. 164), 1938.

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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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• The human race is governed by its imagination.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspiration, Carpe Diem, Race

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• The man who has no imagination has no wings.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Dec 05, 2010

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  Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

  Lauren Bacall

  Women, Educational, Inspiration

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Science

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

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• All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Men, Imagination

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.67, Psychology Press

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  He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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  What is now proved was once only imagined.

  William Blake

  Positive, Spiritual, Positivity

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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• Imagination is the eye of the soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.331, Princeton University Press

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• Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

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• All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 20, 2014

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• Live out of your imagination, not your history.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

  Stephen R. Covey (1999). “Choice: Choosing the Proactive Life You Want to Live”, Franklincovey

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