“Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.”
“The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.”
“The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.”
“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the ''as if'' technique.”
“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
“When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.”
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”
“The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.”
“The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.”
“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.”
“If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.”
“What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.”
“I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.”
“It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.”
“By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.”
“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”
“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
“By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.”
“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.”
“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.”
“See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.”
“You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.”
“''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''”
“I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.”
“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”
“Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.”
“I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?”
“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.”
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.”
“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.”