Thomas Sankara Quotes

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.

Imagination - that's the future for us.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.

I really believe in dreaming and making things from nothing.

Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls to us to paint upon it with our own dreams and imaginations anything we wish, anything we want, and anything we can imagine.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Never abandon imagination

It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

Anything you can imagine, you can create.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.