Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Success Magazine

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Orr, Leonard

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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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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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have crossed bridges in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

Library, Speakers

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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 a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proust, Marcel

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The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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