The source and center of all man's creative power. . . is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather than die than think.

When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

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

Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; or as great as your dominant aspiration.

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?”

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

We think to small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

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.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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.

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.