Imagination Quotes
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Use these imagination quotes to prompt positive changes in your world…today! How strong are your imagining muscles? All humans have the power to imagine possibilities and...
...make them real. Think about it. It costs nothing to imagine. No degrees are required, yet every one of us has the power and potential to have an idea that can positively change the world (or earn us millions of dollars). Practice imagining outrageously wonderful things you’d love to see in your life. Create a vision board with pictures of those things. Spend time imagining yourself in those pictures, living with those things, and feeling the feelings those accomplishments would stimulate. The more you feel, the more it becomes real. I call this positive pretending.
Albert Einstein famously said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” It’s an important message for all of us because imagination has no limits and knowledge is always limited. Reading through these imagination quotes, I hope you come to the conclusion we all have the power to become imagination experts.
Our life is a product of all we’ve imagined – the positive and the negative. Believe it or not, that is good news. Great news actually, because imagining can help all of us attract more of what we truly desire in life. We simply need to imagine life better. Then imagine it better still. And after that, imagine it ten times better than that. Is it getting hard to imagine so much ‘goodness’? That just means you need more practice. Keep in mind – we can only attract those things we can imagine into our life. If you can’t imagine it, it is in your best interest to try…baby step, by baby step.
Quote quiz: who said “A mind stretched to a new idea can never go back to its original shape”? It’s in our Joy of Quotes collection under mind quotes if I’m not mistaken. Now start stretching your imagination muscles along with indulging in your ‘inspirational quote’ habit daily.
I see success in large doses coming your way! After imagination quotes, proceed directly to success quotes (unless, of course, your imagination suggests a different subject area.
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Charles Darwin
The arts, as media of the imagination, are disciplines which give form and substance to our capacity to be who we are. Each artistic medium embodies the imagination in a concrete and specific way.
Stephen Levine
Each human being has a unique way of looking at the universe. As well, each has a distinctive imagination, the seedbed from which true originality grows.
Larry Livingston
When you are completely caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and released your creative imagination.
Rollo May
Imagination is not possible without memory, but neither is memory possible without imagination.
Arnold H. Modell Tweet this Quote!
The secret…is to regard…intelligence is a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.
Maria Montessori
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, and boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving, but because we first stopped imagining.
James Hillman
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
Terence McKenna Tweet this Quote!
Movement, whether it is creative, spontaneous, on the playground, or through the daily practice of walking has the capacity to be the muscle of the imagination and the entrance to the visceral imagination.
Celeste Snowber
Imagination, as the basis of all creative activity, is an important component of absolutely all aspects of cultural life, enabling artistic, scientific, and technical creation alike.
L. S. Vygotsky
It is precisely human creative activity that makes the human being a creature oriented toward the future, creating the future and thus altering his own present. This creative activity, based on the ability of our brain to combine elements, is called imagination.
L. S. Vygotsky
We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
David Lynch
Awe drives imagination.
John Seely Brown Tweet this Quote!
Every human has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom…The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen R. Covey
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
Albert Einstein , from "What Life Means to Einstein" (1929)
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
John Keats Tweet this Quote!
Doors are for people with no imagination.
Derek Landy Tweet this Quote!
A capacity for imagination cannot be outsourced. It is our greatest domestic renewable resource.
Eric Liu & Scott Noppe-Brandon
Any conceptual breakthrough requires imagination first.
Eric Liu & Scott Noppe-Brandon Tweet this Quote!
Because imagination is related to images, and images are related to the brain, it is logical to think of imagination as a purely cognitive capacity. But imagination is equally about emotion…When you can overcome fear, you earn a chance to exercise your imagination. When you can't, you don't.
Eric Liu & Scott Noppe-Brandon
If imagination is the capacity to conceive of what is not, then creativity, in turn, is imagination applied: doing something, or making something, with that initial conception.
Eric Liu & Scott Noppe-Brandon
Imagination can unfold in the conscious and deliberate and in the unconscious and intuitive. It unfolds in flights of fancy and in hands-on play. It can emerge from crisis or from calm.
Eric Liu & Scott Noppe-Brandon
Without a healthy and well-fed imagination, there is no creativity or innovation.
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Whether you aim to change the whole world or the world within you, the limits are set as much by your imagination as by your current circumstances. This has been true for all people since the beginnings of human history.
Ken Robinson
Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right.
Gabrielle Roth
Imagination is the force that pulls your physical, emotional, and mental energies into dynamic harmony, giving wings to your soul.
Gabrielle Roth
Imagination, not slavery to fact, is the source of whatever is good in human life.
Bertrand Russell Tweet this Quote!
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold Toynbee
All that is the work of the human hand, the whole world of culture, is distinguished from the natural world because it is a project of human imagination and creativity based on imagination.
L. S. Vygotsky
There is a boundary to our passions when we act from feelings; but none when we are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
Imagination is the fundamental expressive tool of the soul.
Bruce L. Moon Tweet this Quote!
Creativity is the process of expressing and applying imagination.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly Tweet this Quote!
Your ability to act on your imagination is going to be so decisive in driving your future and the standard of living in your country. So the school, the state, the country that empowers, nurtures, enables imagination among its students and citizens, that's who's going to be the winner.
Thomas L. Friedman
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
Rollo May Tweet this Quote!
Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.
Ken Robinson
Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
Ken Robinson Tweet this Quote!
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau Tweet this Quote!
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
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake Tweet this Quote!
Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Your imagination is what you use to shape your future. And so in your own way, you are a prophet. You generate countless predictions every day. Your imagination is the source,tirelessly churning out mental pictures of what you'll be doing in the future.
Rob Brezsny
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination.
Emily Dickinson Tweet this Quote!
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Mohammad Ali Tweet this Quote!
To invent you need a goal, imagination, and a pile of junk.
Thomas Alva Edison Tweet this Quote!
Our imagination is boundless. In a split second we can imagine an incredible number of things. To give form to what is imagined takes great creative powers. That's why I believe creativity is giving form to imagination.
Fereydoon Family
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon Tweet this Quote!
Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
Alex Osborn Tweet this Quote!
By picturing ourselves creating at our highest levels, imagining the finished product and the deep joy that comes from creating, we move closer to our dreams. Visualizing the end result from our creative effort helps us achieve it.
Salli Rasberry
Imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Brenda Ueland Tweet this Quote!
To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
Steven Covey Tweet this Quote!
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein Tweet this Quote!
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein Tweet this Quote!
Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.
Marianne Williamson
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman Tweet this Quote!
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde Tweet this Quote!
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir Tweet this Quote!
Before you can do something that you've never done before, you have to imagine it's possible.
Jean Shinoda Bolen Tweet this Quote!
Live out of your imagination instead of your memory.
Les Brown Tweet this Quote!
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill
We are often more frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Seneca Tweet this Quote!
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte Tweet this Quote!
You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.
Winston Churchill
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen R. Covey Tweet this Quote!
The source of genius is imagination alone.
Eugène Delacroix Tweet this Quote!
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
John Dewey Tweet this Quote!
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein Tweet this Quote!
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein Tweet this Quote!
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
Anatole France Tweet this Quote!
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward Hopper Tweet this Quote!
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
Henry James Tweet this Quote!
Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.
Georgette Leblane Tweet this Quote!
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
Barry Lopez Tweet this Quote!
You can't do it unless you imagine it.
George Lucas Tweet this Quote!
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Duane Michals
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale Tweet this Quote!
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso Tweet this Quote!
It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.
Catherine Ponder Tweet this Quote!
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
Your knowledge has limits but your imagination does not.
Geraint Straker Tweet this Quote!
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut Tweet this Quote!
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