The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

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I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

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.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

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

I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and the alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have "crossed bridges" in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower."

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Imagination decides everything.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: "I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind."