Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Brown, Gene

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

Breton, Andre

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

Ruskin, John

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

Serling, Rod

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Morrison, Alex

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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.

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

Orr, Leonard

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise