Imagination Quotes

The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'

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"Your imagination is the only limit to what you can become and accomplish."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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"Imagination allows us to see possibilities that have not yet been actualized in the world."
Martin Seligman
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"Imagination is the faculty that allows us to transcend our current circumstances and envision better possibilities."
Martin Seligman
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"Our capacity for imagination is our capacity for infinite possibility."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"Imagination is the bridge between where we are and where we want to be."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"Imagination is not escapism. It's the capacity to envision what might be and work toward its reality."
Christopher Peterson
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"Imagination is the precursor to all human achievement. First we envision, then we create."
Christopher Peterson
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"Imagination is the birthplace of all creativity and innovation."
Daniel Goleman
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"Secure children ask more questions because they are less afraid of the answers."
Mary Ainsworth
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"Imagination is our capacity to live into possibilities that don't yet exist."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"Your capacity for wonder is your capacity for meaning."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"Your imagination is the most powerful tool you have for creating change."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"Imagination is the foundation of all human activity."
Lev Vygotsky
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"Imagination grows out of the child's active engagement with the world."
Lev Vygotsky
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Jean Piaget
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"It is with the aid of these generic images that the imagination recreates the world."
Jean Piaget
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"Moral development requires imagination—the ability to put ourselves in others' shoes and envision alternative ways of organizing society."
Lawrence Kohlberg
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"Regret requires imagination about how things could have turned out differently."
Daniel Kahneman
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"The visible world is extremely impoverished compared to the infinite possibilities of the invisible world."
Daniel Kahneman
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"Imagination is not escape; it is the rehearsal space for the future we are building."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"Imagination is the basis of all emotional activity and personal meaning."
Lev Vygotsky
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"Moral education that fails to engage the imagination is incomplete education."
Lawrence Kohlberg
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"The best indication of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Jean Piaget
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to discover."
Jean Piaget
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"Symbolic play allows the child to represent reality in new and creative ways."
Jean Piaget
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge in a crisis."
Carl Rogers
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"The secure child becomes the curious adult."
John Bowlby
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"The secure base allows us to explore both inner and outer worlds."
John Bowlby
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"Only the musician can hear the music before it is played"
Abraham Maslow