Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Imagination

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

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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

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

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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 is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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You must pre-live the future... not re-live the past... and savor the moment.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Mark Twain

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Ruskin, John

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative success mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Charles F. Kettering

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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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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Gerard, Ralph