Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Imagination

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

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

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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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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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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You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Brown, Gene

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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 highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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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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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Twain, Mark

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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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The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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Your imagination is your 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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Morrison, Alex

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

Hill, Napoleon