Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

- Bacall, Lauren

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Twain, Mark

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Carson, Rachel

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

Bach, Richard

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

Success Magazine

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative success mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Shaw, P.K.

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mark Twain

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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

Ward, William A.

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

Brown, Les

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

Ruskin, John

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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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

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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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You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Morrison, Alex

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Meredith, George

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Einstein, Albert

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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Brown, Gene