Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.

- Anthony, Dr. Robert

Best Quotes about Imagination

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

Ruskin, John

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Anderson, Marian

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Mark Twain

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Weil, Simone

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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 opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Kettering, Charles F.

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Ruskin, John

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

Hill, Napoleon

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Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Sean O'Faolain

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Serling, Rod

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We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

Breton, Andre

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By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Brande, Dorothea

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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Thoreau, Henry David

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See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert