Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Charles F. Kettering

Best Quotes about Imagination

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Brande, Dorothea

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

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.

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

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

James, William

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

Success Magazine

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Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

Collier, Robert

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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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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

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Verne, Jules

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ruskin, John

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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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If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Bernhard, Sandra

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

Brown, Les

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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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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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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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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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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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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When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

Anderson, Marian

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Mark Twain

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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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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Coue, Emile

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Memory feeds imagination.