Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morrison, Alex

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

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

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

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

Charles F. Kettering

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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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Verne, Jules

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Weil, Simone

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

Brown, Gene

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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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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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 the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Maltz, Maxwell

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You must pre-live the future... not re-live the past... and savor the moment.

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert