Quotes about Imagination
Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you.
— Napoleon Hill
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
— Ayn Rand
Writing is a form of mischief.
— Stephen Sondheim
Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
— Steve Jobs
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.
— Florence Nightingale
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
— Vernon Howard
Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.
— Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.
— Henry David Thoreau
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.
— CS Lewis
The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.
— Charles Spurgeon