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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Weil, Simone

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

Brande, Dorothea

Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Mark Twain

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

James, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruskin, John

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

Success Magazine

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Stevens, Wallace

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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

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

Serling, Rod

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

Orr, Leonard

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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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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

Pound, Ezra

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Meredith, George

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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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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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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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Einstein, Albert

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise