Imagination Quotes
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.
Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.
I don't dream at night; I dream all day. I dream for a living.
When you think something, you think in pictures. 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.
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 emulate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and is it not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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.
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.
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
Fertility of mind is not what gives us with so many resources on the same matter. In fact, It is the lack of good discernment that makes us hesitate at each thing our imagination presents, and hinders us from at first discerning which is the best.
Ideas shape the course of history.