Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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.

Best Quotes about Imagination

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Meredith, George

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

Serling, Rod

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Success Magazine

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.

James, William

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Blake, William

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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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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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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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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Connelly, Billy

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.

Devore, Stephen

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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 imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Verne, Jules

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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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