Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Man is an imagining being.

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Rainbow, George Weiss

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Brown, Les

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

Verne, Jules

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It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Orr, Leonard

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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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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Serling, Rod

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Gene

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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