Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Ward, William A.

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Meredith, George

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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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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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Proust, Marcel

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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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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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Carson, Rachel

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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Charles F. Kettering

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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Jung, Carl

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative success mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston