Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Anderson, Marian

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

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

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

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

Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Collier, Robert

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Ruskin, John

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

Orr, Leonard

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Serling, Rod

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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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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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J.K. Rowling

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

Mark Twain

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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 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