Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about Imagination

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Charles F. Kettering

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Brown, Les

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

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Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Vizinczey, Stephen

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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Maltz, Maxwell

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You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Waitley, Denis

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

George Bernard Shaw

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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Meredith, George

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I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.

Devore, Stephen

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The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

Bierstedt, Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

Library, Speakers

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

Anderson, Marian

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By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

Success Magazine

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.

Nicklaus, Jack

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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Berger, John

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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Sade, Marquis De

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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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

Bach, Richard

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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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If you clearly and vividly IMAGINE yourself in the first person doing, being, having the things and qualities you truly want... then you will be using positive imagination to begin a change to fulfilling that image.

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Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

Pound, Ezra

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Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Bunuel, Luis

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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.

Weil, Simone

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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Coue, Emile

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Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

Collier, Robert

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Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

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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.

Hill, Napoleon

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Ruskin, John

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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J.K. Rowling

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Blake, William

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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe