Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Anthony, Dr. Robert

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Twain, Mark

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

Weil, Simone

The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

Einstein, Albert

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!

Collier, Robert

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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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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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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ruskin, John

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind.

Zilbergeld, Bernie

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

Brown, Les

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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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We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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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

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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Miller, Henry

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

Verne, Jules

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

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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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

Success Magazine

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Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Bell, E. T.

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Brown, Gene

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that 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.

Collier, Robert

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

Douglas, Mack R.