Motivational Quotes

Imagination

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Serling, Rod

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

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Mark Twain

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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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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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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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

James, William

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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

Ward, William A.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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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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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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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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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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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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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Bell, E. T.

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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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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Weil, Simone

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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

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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