Imagination Quotes

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

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"The mind of a child sees possibilities where adults see obstacles."
George Eastman
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"To invent, one must think beyond what already exists."
Guglielmo Marconi
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"The mind is capable of far greater things than the body realizes."
Guglielmo Marconi
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"I have always been a believer in the power of imagination."
Cornelius Vanderbilt
"Imagination is more valuable than knowledge; it is the beginning of all creation."
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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"All the resources we need are in the mind."
John D. Rockefeller
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge; knowledge is limited to what already exists."
George Eastman
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"Imagination without execution is daydreaming; execution without imagination is drudgery."
George Eastman
"The imagination is the most powerful instrument."
Pierre Boulez
"Imagination is the compass of progress."
Pierre Boulez
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"Youth is not a time of life—it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination."
Henry Ford
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"Anybody can do anything that he imagines."
Henry Ford
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"Fortunes are made by those who see what others cannot see."
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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"The future is not something that happens to us; it is something we create."
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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"Anything I can conceive and believe, I can achieve."
Andrew Carnegie
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"A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing."
Andrew Carnegie
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"Imagination is more powerful than reality."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"Imagination alone can create the future."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"Imagination is the amplifier of experience."
Pierre Schaeffer
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"The power of imagination transcends all limits."
Pierre Schaeffer
"Every silence contains infinite possibility."
Pierre Boulez
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"Every sound has a story waiting to be heard."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"Imagination is the birthplace of all discovery."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"Imagination transforms suffering into transcendence."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
Henry Ford
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"Imagination is the only tool the artist truly needs."
Pierre Schaeffer
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"The artist's greatest tool is the capacity to wonder."
Pierre Schaeffer
"A composer must understand that constraint breeds imagination."
Pierre Boulez
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"A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing."
Andrew Carnegie
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"I built my fortune by understanding what others could not see."
Cornelius Vanderbilt