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

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

James, William

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

Proust, Marcel

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Waitley, Denis

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Weil, Simone

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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 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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See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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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 not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Brown, Gene

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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul