Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Douglas, Mack R.

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

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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

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

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

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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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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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Morrison, Alex

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Coue, Emile

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Brown, Gene

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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Memory feeds imagination.