Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Imagination

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Twain, Mark

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Serling, Rod

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

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Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

Tesla, Nikola

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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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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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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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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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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Proust, Marcel

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Morrison, Alex

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

Ruskin, John

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

Weil, Simone

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

Brown, Gene

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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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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If you clearly and vividly IMAGINE yourself in the first person doing, being, having the things and qualities you truly want... then you will be using positive imagination to begin a change to fulfilling that image.

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

Anderson, Marian

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Gerard, Ralph

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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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Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Waitley, Denis

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Verne, Jules

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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul