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

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, 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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Orr, Leonard

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Miller, Henry

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gerard, Ralph

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

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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

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

Serling, Rod

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Meredith, George

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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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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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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Carson, Rachel

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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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By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

Success Magazine

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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