Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Coue, Emile

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Coue, Emile

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

James, William

Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Bernhard, Sandra

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

Ruskin, John

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

Ruskin, John

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

Weil, Simone

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Mark Twain

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

Shaw, P.K.

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Miller, Henry

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Verne, Jules

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Brown, Gene

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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