Ideas & Imagination Quotes

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.- Thomas Edison

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.- Brian Tracy

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

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. - Pablo Picasso

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them....- Thomas Edison

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.- Vincent Van Gogh

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.- Thomas Edison

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.- Pablo Picasso

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.- Thomas Edison

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off.- Thomas Edison

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.- Jim Rohn

If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, we both still only have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, we each now have two ideas.- George Bernard Shaw

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.- Thomas Edison

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.- Pablo Picasso

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.- Aristotle

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
- Napoleon Hill

Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought.
- Alexander Graham Bell

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
- Napoleon Hill

Posession of anything begins in the mind.- Bruce Lee

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination…they think ahead and create their mental 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

The man who has no imagination has no wings.- Muhammad Ali

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.- Henry Ford

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.- Nelson Mandela

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.- Henry Ford

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.- Alexander Graham Bell