Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Gerard, Ralph

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

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

Serling, Rod

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mark Twain

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We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

Mcdonald, John

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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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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, 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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Verne, Jules

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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