Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Verne, Jules

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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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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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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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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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

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We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Weil, Simone

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Conrad, 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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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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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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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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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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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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Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

Tesla, Nikola

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

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

Meredith, George

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Anderson, Marian

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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

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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