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Imagination is about creativity and mental visualisation

• Imagination: The faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses.  Oxford Dictionary
• Imagination:  The ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful.  Oxford Dictionary
• Imagination:  The ability to form pictures in the mind.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Imagination:  The act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality.  Merriam Webster
• Creativity,  Creative expression,  Visualisation,  Vision,  Fantasy,  Imagination

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Imagination is seeing what cannot be seen

• I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.  Peter Nivio Zarlenga
• The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.  Charles Kingsley
• I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.  Duane Michals
• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.  Francis Bacon
• It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.  Henry David Thoreau
• You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.  Mark Twain
• I shut my eyes in order to see.  Paul Gauguin
• The only faculty by which we can bring the invisible near, is the imagination.  Reuen Thomas
• You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.  Mark Twain
• The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.  Charles de Lint
• The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye–not creation, but insight.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Imagination is intelligence having fun

• Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.  George Scialabba
• Imagination is intelligence with an erection.  Victor Hugo
• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.  Albert Einstein
• In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.  Albert Einstein
• Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.  Vivienne Westwood
• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.  Victor Hugo
• Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.   Victor Hugo
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Imagination is the eye and voice of the soul

• Remember that imagination is the faculty of the soul and that when it suggests new pathways to us we are being invited to explore the territory of the soul in ways that will certainly change and re enchant us.  Caitlin Matthews
• Imagination is the fundamental expressive tool of the soul.  Bruce L. Moon
• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.  Henry Ward Beecher
• It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us.  Terence McKenna
• Imagination is the eye of the soul.  Joseph Joubert
• All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God’s self in the soul.  Henry Ward Beecher
• Imagination is the deepest voice of the soul and can be heard clearly only through cultivation and careful attention. A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self.  Pat B. Allen
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Imagination is the sixth sense

• The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.  Leonardo da Vinci
• The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.  Christopher Fry
• The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Imagination is a potent force

• Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.  Albert Einstein
• Imgination rules the world.  Napoleon Bonaparte
• The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.  John Ruskin
• Man lives by imagination.  Havelock Ellis
• Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination. It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!   Saul Bellow
• Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.  Charkes Baudelaire
• No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.  Edward Hopper

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Imagination is a magical gift

• Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.   Sir Ken Robinson
• Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.  Blaise Pascal
• The key to life is imagination. If you don’t have that, no mater what you have, it’s meaningless. If you do have imagination… you can make feast of straw.  Jane Stanton Hitchcock
• Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.  Louis Aragon
• I believe imagination is our premium resource. We carry within us the lost diversity this planet needs. Engaging our individual expression, using imagination to inform, expand, and guide us, we can begin to return to Eden.  Suzanne Beth Stinnett
• I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn’t have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn’t exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.  Lloyd Alexander
• There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking- machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams – day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing – are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.  L. Frank Baum
• Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.  Criss Jami
• Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.  Mae Jemison

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Imagination is more powerful than knowledge

• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.  E. E. Cummings
• Your knowledge has limits but your imagination does not.  Geraint Straker
• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.  Albert Einstein
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.  Albert Einstein
• To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.  Anatole France
• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.  Robert Fulghum
• Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.   Stephen Leacock
• I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.  Albert Einstein
• Facts? What are facts? I only know imagination!   C. JoyBell C.
• Where knowledge ends… feeling and imagination begin.  Neville Goddard
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Imagination can be more powerful than rational thinking …

• Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.  Martin Farquhar Tupper
• 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 any talent for abstract, positive thinking.  Albert Einstein
• People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.  William Butler Yeats
• The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.  Carson McCullers
• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.  C. S. Lewis
• Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.  Proverb
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… and is essential even in analytical fields like science

• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.  Albert Einstein
• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.  Albert Einstein
• Science does not know its debt to imagination.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. Maria Montessori
• Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.  John Dewey
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Imagination can be more powerful than reality

• Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.  Mark Twain
• Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. Jules de Gaultier
• Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on.
• In the realist you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.  Robert Brault
• Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.  Jules de Gaultier
• Imagination flourishes just beyond the real, the known, the concrete.  Robert A. Kowal
• Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.  John Lennon
• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination.  Sam Levenson
• Everything you can imagine is real.  Pablo Picasso
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Imagination allows us to fly and takes us to magical places

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.  Carl Sagan
• Imagination is the true magic carpet.  Norman Vincent Peale
• Imagination is the highest kite we can fly.  Lauren Bacall
• The man who has no imagination has no wings.  Mohammad Ali
• Our imagination flies — we are its shadow on the earth.  Vladimir Nabokov
• How far can your imagination take you? I don’t know. That’s up to you, but I think you should find out.  Destiny Booze
• He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.  Joseph Joubert
• The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.  Henry David Thoreau
• Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.  Jane Austen
• Imagination is the air of mind.  Philip James Bailey

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Imagination allows us to touch on truth

• It is through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.  Madeleine L’Engle
• The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth.   Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
• I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination– what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth–whether it existed before or not.   John Keats
• A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.   Isaac Newton
• I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination.  John Keats
• Truth is a matter of the imagination.  Ursula K. Le Guin
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Imagination has the power to free us for it is limitless

• The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• In imagination, there’s no limitation.  Mark Victor Hansen
• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.  Albert Einstein
• The power of imagination makes us infinite.  John Muir
• There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.  G.K. Chesterton
• Your brain is wider than the sky.  Emily Dickinson
• You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.  Yoko Ono
• The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.  Grant Morrison
• Trapped by reality, freed by imagination.  Nicolas Manetta
• The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Your knowledge has limits but your imagination does not. Geraint Straker
• Doors are for people with no imagination.  Derek Landy
• Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.   Jamie Paolinetti

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Imagination is at the heart of human empathy and compassion

• A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.  Percy Bysshe Shelley
• I am compassionate.  I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others.  While maintaining my own balance, I find it within myself to extend sympathy, attention, and support.   Julia Cameron
• If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.  Frederick Buechner
• Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our   humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.  Ian McEwan
• Moral imagination is the capacity to empathize with others, i.e., not just to feel for oneself, but to feel with and for others. This is something that education ought to cultivate and that citizens ought to bring to politics.  McCollough
• Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition. Without this empathy, there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.  Azar Nafisi
• There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.  Milan Kundera
• When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.  Susan Sarandon
• Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.  J.K. Rowling
• I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people’s places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.  Jean Webster
• Moral imagination is the capacity to empathize with others, i.e. not just to feel for oneself, but to feel with and for others. This is something that education ought to cultivate and that citizens ought to bring to politics. McCollough
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Imagination is at the heart of intuition

• Intuition is a way of knowing about the world through insight and exercising one’s imagination. Valerie Janesick
• As the visceral imagination is opened up, the intuition is given muscles, and we can teach on our feet, and be informed by what has great capacity to guide us. Celeste Snowber
• I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge.  Albert Einstein
• Joyful people are enthusiastic people, moved by a zest for living, born on the wings of imagination empowered by a strong gift of intuition.  Frederick Fellini
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Imagination is at the heart of inspiration

• The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. Carol Ann Duffy
• Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.  Violet Haberdasher
• Let go and allow inspiration and imagination to lead the way beyond the limitations of what the mind knows. Linda Saccoccio
• Imagination stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind abundant data with which to work. It opens the gate to dreams and fantasies so that you may become receptive, as a little child, in exploring the Kingdom of Ideas.  Wilferd Peterson
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Imagination is at the heart of dreaming

• Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.  H.F. Hedge
• Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the “right stuff” to turn our dreams into reality.  James Womack
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Imagination is at the heart of mystery

• Mystery is not founded in ignorance, mystery is founded in imagination.  S. Spencer Baker
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Imagination is at the heart of discovery and innovation

• Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.  William Jevons
• Imagination is… the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation.  J.K. Rowling
• Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone’s imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don’t have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it’s impossible to do what they imagine.  Ron Johnson
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Imagination is at the heart of good teaching and effective learning

• A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.  Brad Henry
• Education:  The development of the memory at the expense of the imagination.  Owen Johnson
• He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.  Joseph Joubert
• Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it’s the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.  Ken Robinson
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Imagination feeds romantic love

• I can no longer think of anything but you.  In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you.  I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me. Honore de Balzac
• Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.  Volaire
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Imagination is the first step in creation

• 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. Napoleon Hill
• If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.  William Maxwell
• Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.  Maria Montessori
• 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
• Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.  William W. Atkinson
• Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.  Napoleon Hill
• Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.  L. Frank Baum
• Imagination, Build, Begin. To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan… believe… act! Alfred A. Montapert
• It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.  Catherine Ponder
• The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.  Napoleon Hill
• The source and centre of all man’s creative power is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.  Robert Collier
• 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
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Imagination is the spark that ignites creativity

• Cultivate your imagination.  Set aside time each day to ask yourself “what if? questions.  Use the provocative answers you find as stepping stones to new ideas.  Roger von Oech
• Imagination is the spark that ignites the fire of creativity.  Richard Laurence Peterson
• Creativity is the process of expressing and applying imagination.  Marta Davidovich Ockuly
• All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.  Carl Jung
• Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.  Sir Ken Robinson
• Creativity is a multi-faceted process. It involves many ordinary abilities and some specialized skills and techniques; it can be fostered by many different ways of thinking, and it draws on critical judgment as well as imagination, intuition and often gut feelings.  Sir Ken Robinson
• Creativity is the ideas expressed after summoning everything you’ve learned and disregarding everything you know. It’s the ability to get out of the way of one’s originality and imagination.  Dan Greenberger
• Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul.   Sue Patton Thoel
• Creativity:  The use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.  Oxford Dictionary
• Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea – it only starts with an idea.   John Arnold
• Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.  Sir Ken Robinson
• Imagination…are the seeds of the creative process which flowers when nurtured by dedicated conscientious planning and work.  Harold A. Rothbart
• The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas. Terence McKenna
• An idea is salvation by imagination.  Frank Lloyd Wright
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Imagination is at the heart of innovation and invention

• Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.  Albert- Laszlo Barabasi
• Imagination is the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation.  J. K. Rowling
• Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination!  Jacques Lipchitz
• Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.   L. Frank Baum
• Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.   L. Ron Hubbard
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Imagination is at the heart of art

• Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination.  Devin, Los Cerros Middle School
• Art: Something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings.  Merriam Webster
• Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.  Robert Genn
• Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.  Vincent van Gogh
• Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.  Goya
• I believe imagination is our premium resource. We carry within us the lost diversity this planet needs. Engaging our individual expression, using imagination to inform, expand, and guide us, we can begin to return to Eden.  Suzanne Beth Stinnett
• I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.  Charles Baudelaire
• If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.  Yann Martel, Life of Pi
• Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.  Cyril Connolly
• Imagination: What puts men in asylums unless they are crazy enough to put it down on paper or canvas.
• The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world, we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.  Leo Tolstoy
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Imagination is at the heart of writing

• A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.  William Faulkner
• A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.  Vladimir Nabokov
• And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.  Sylvia Plath
• Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.   Franklin Adams
• My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk.  John Keats
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Determine to live out of your imagination, not your memory

• Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.  Adele Brookman
• To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.  Stephen Covey
• It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.  Lewis Carroll
• I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past. I can become my own creator.   Stephen Covey
• Live out of your imagination, not your history.  Stephen Covey
• Imagination means nothing without doing.  Charles Chaplin
• We should use our imagination more than our memory.  Shimon Peres
• Memory feeds imagination.  Amy Tan
• Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.  Amos Bronson Alcott
• 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 Covey
• The secret is to consciously respond based on inspiration, imagination, intuition and divine intelligence, not to simply react based on memory, conditioning, and impulse.  Geraldine Evans
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Use your imagination to crystallise your life’s possibilities….

• The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility.  Leland Kaiser
• Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.  Robert H. Schuller
• Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.  Stephen Covey
• Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
• Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.  Charles F. Kettering
• The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.  Alexander Chase
• We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.   J.K. Rowling
• I have a habit of letting my imagination run away from me. It always comes back though . . . drenched with possibilities.  Valaida Fullwood
• You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”   George Bernard Shaw
• 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.  Speakers Library
• For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The only thing limiting your aspiration is your imagination.  Stephen Richards
• At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.  Roberto Unger
• Between stimulus and response, you have the freedom to choose your response based on self-awareness, your imagination, your conscience and your independent will.  Stephen Covey
• Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you’ve ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life.  Christine Anderson
• If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.  Hiroko Sakai
• Let go and allow inspiration and imagination to lead the way beyond the limitations of what the mind knows.  Linda Saccoccio
• Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.   Wallace D. Wattles
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…and then harness your imagination to create the future you desire …

• The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.  Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
• It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power of that truth needs to be directed toward our creation of a future that is worthy of true human value and the world civilization.  Vanna Bonta
• There is nothing like a dream to create the future.  Victor Hugo
• If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.   Malcolm Gladwell
• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.  Albert Einstein
• Memories establish the past; Senses perceive the present; Imaginations shape the future.  Toba Beta
• The empires of the future are empires of the mind.  Winston Churchill
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… by creating a compelling vision of what your life could be

• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.  Michelangelo
• He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.  James Allen
• Cherish your visions. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, for out of that will grow all delightful conditions; if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.  James Allen
• The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.  Robert Collier
• When you run inspiring, imaginative pictures through the movie screen of your mind, wonderful things start to happen in your life. Einstein said that ‘imagination is more important than knowledge.’ You must spend some time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in the practice of creative envisioning. See yourself as you want to be, whether this means serving as a great judge, a great father or a great citizen of your community.  Robin Sharma
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In this way, let your imagination be the seeds of your desires, goals and ultimate success

• Imagination creates desire. You will what you imagine.  J.G. Gallimore
• 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
• For imagination sets the goal “picture” which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of “will”, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.  Maxwell Maltz
• It is out of your imagination that the seeds of your success are sown.   Zephyr Bloch- Jorgensen
• Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.  Albert Einstein
• No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.  Richard Bach
• Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.  Oscar Wilde
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Awaken yourself to the possibility you can have, be and do whatever you imagine…

• You can have, be and do whatever you imagine. Thought is pure energy. Every thought is creative. Neale Donald Walsch
• What is thinkable is also possible.  Ludwig Wittgenstein
• You can’t do it unless you imagine it.  George Lucas
• Before you can do something that you’ve never done before, you have to imagine it’s possible.  Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Anything imagined can be made real … given sufficient genius.  Kevin J. Anderson
• Everything you can imagine is real.  Pablo Picasso
• What we vividly imagine, ardently desire, enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass.   Colin P. Sisson
• We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.  Donald Curtis
• If you have the ability to imagine it, or even to think about it, this Universe has the ability and the resources to deliver it fully unto you. Esther and Jerry Hicks
• All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.  Ruth Ross
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Through the power of your imagination, you can literally transform your world

• It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.  Barry Lopez
• 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
• This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.  Henry David Thoreau
• We ultimately inhabit the landscape of our own imaginings.  Diane Long Hoeveler

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Always look for opportunities to feed and develop your imagination

• Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.  Patricia A. McKillip
• So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.  Brenda Ueland
• Imagination is an inner resource. That’s why it takes stopping, slowing, silencing, reassuring, embracing to allow it to speak.  Suzanne Beth Stinnett
• Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.  Philip José Farmer

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Awaken your imagination through reading

• A book is a device to ignite the imagination.  Alan Bennett
• Anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.  Lloyd Alexander
• I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we’ve never met, living lives we couldn’t possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character’s skin.   Ann Patchett
• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.  Salman Rushdie
• People don’t read any more. It’s a sad state of affairs. Reading’s the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it’s someone else’s vision, isn’t it?  Lemmy Kilmister
• The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination – creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.  Eric Ripert
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Awaken your imagination through nature

• Clouds are the sky’s imagination.  Terri Guillemets
• Aren’t the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton… I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by… If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud formations… What do you think you see,  Linus?
• The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.  Sheila Ballantyne
• The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.  Wyland
• The color of springtime is in the flowers; the colour of winter is in the imagination. Terri Guillemets
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Embrace the gift of fantasy for it can reveal deep truths and insights

• 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 any talent for abstract, positive thinking.  Albert Einstein
• I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.  Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.  Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.  Theodore Geisel
• If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.  Danielle Steel
• Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.  Jessamyn West
• Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.  Goya
• Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.  Lloyd Alexander
• In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.  Lauren Groff
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Encourage the imagination of children for it is part of their genius

• Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.  L. Frank Baum
• Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality.  Julian Hawthorne
• The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child’s mind.  Robert Brault
• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed.  If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.  Ursula K. Le Guin
• Children between the ages of two and seven are very imaginative. This is the best period for the development of imagination, creativity and thinking abilities.  Chiam Heng Keng
• Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear it, and we live in silence. It isn’t that God stopped speaking; it is that our lives became louder.  Mike Yaconelli
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Keep your imagination alive through your life as it will keep you young

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.  William Somerset Maugham
• As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.  Henry Ward Beecher
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Be aware that imagination has a dark side and it is called worry

• There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings – God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Worry is a misuse of imagination.  Dan Zadra
• Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don’t want.  Abraham-Hicks
• Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.  Goya
• All worry is your imagination. Why not use your imagination to explore happier options?  Marta Davidovich Ockuly
• An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
• It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.  Andre Dubus
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Imagination can feed fear

• Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Ernest Hemingway
• Death is the tyrant of the imagination.  Barry Cornwall
• There are more things that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.  Seneca
• Fears are just fears. They are created by your imagination to make reality seem scarier than it is. When you take action and face your fears, they become weaker, because you realize that reality isn’t nearly as bad as your imagination.  Henri Junttila
• How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. Jeremy Collier
• Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.  Christian Nevell Bovee
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Imagination can feed doubt

• Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend. Helen Keller
• Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible.  James Hollis
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Imagination can feed regret

• There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings – God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Imagination can deceive

• I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.  George Washington
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Use your imagination to inspire you, not terrify you

• Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don’t want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.  Ian Lawton
• Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.  George Eliot
• Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.  Adele Brookman
• Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.  Immanuel Kant
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The future exists only in the imagination

• The past is in memory, the future – in imagination. A thing focused in the now is with me, for I am ever present.  Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow’s ephemeral imagination- world instead of in today’s eternal Reality-Now.  Sri Chinmoy
• Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?  Adyashanti

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• A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.   Arthur Wing Pinero
• A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.  Jane Austen
• Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.   Oscar Wilde
• Can you imagine a world without men? There’d be no crime, and lots of fat happy women.  Nicole Hollander
• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.  Oscar Wilde
• Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.  Oscar Wilde
• Education:  The development of the memory at the expense of the imagination.   Owen Johnson
• Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.   Helen Rowland
• Few people have the imagination for reality.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.   Franklin Adams
• Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.   Elbert Hubbard
• Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. Jules de Gaultier
• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.   Francis Bacon
• Imagination, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.  Ambrose Bierce
• Imagination: The highest kite you can fly.   Lauren Bacall
• Imagination: What puts men in asylums unless they are crazy enough to put it down on paper or canvas.
• Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. Marcel Proust
• Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.  Ambrose Bierce
• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.   M.L.Mencken
• Race is just a pigment of the imagination.
• 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
• Some people hear voices; some see invisible people; others have no imagination whatsoever.
• Suntan: A pigment of your imagination.
• Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.  Bernard M. Baruch
• The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.  Oscar Wilde
• The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.  Oscar Wilde
• There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle- class respectability.   Oscar Wilde
• To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.   Thomas Alva Edison
• Until you walk a mile in another man’s moccasins you can’t imagine the smell.   Robert Byrne
• Women have more imagination than men.  They need it to tell us how wonderful we are.

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