Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Anderson, Marian

Best Quotes about Imagination

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

You must pre-live the future... not re-live the past... and savor the moment.

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

Success Magazine

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

J.K. Rowling

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

Brown, Les

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Proust, Marcel

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

Ruskin, John

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Bernhard, Sandra

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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Verne, Jules

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The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Brown, Gene

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Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Serling, Rod

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Gerard, Ralph

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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

Shaw, P.K.

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Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

Kline, Peter

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It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

Ruskin, John

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The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Jung, Carl

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When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

Speare, Grace

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Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Meredith, George