Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Meredith, George

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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Serling, Rod

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