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
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests
when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything
you go after.
-- Napolean Hill
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as
wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
-- Voltaire
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the
imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
-- Jules de Gaultier
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to
depreciate imagination.
-- Carl Jung
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
-- Charles F. Kettering
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as
succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will
seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense
that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
-- Sean O'Faolain
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling
and puttering.
-- Brenda Ueland
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more
important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
-- Simone Weil
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
-- Ruth Ross
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact
measure of his importance and dignity.
-- George Santayana
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
-- Muhammad Ali
Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor is provided to console him from what he is.
-- Oscar Wilde
