Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Imagination

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.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

Ruskin, John

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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Serling, Rod

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Brown, Gene

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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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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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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 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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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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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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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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Weil, Simone

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

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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Proust, Marcel