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

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

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

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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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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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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

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

Success Magazine

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

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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

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Meredith, George

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proust, Marcel

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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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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Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Verne, Jules

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Brown, Les

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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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