Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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.

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

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

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Bach, Richard

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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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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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Mark Twain

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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

Anderson, Marian

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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Bunuel, Luis

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Twain, Mark

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

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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

Kline, Peter

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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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 nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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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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 most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Meredith, George

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building -- steadily building.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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 is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace