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

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Success Magazine

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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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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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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Serling, Rod

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Mark Twain

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Blake, William

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Ruskin, John

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo