Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Gerard, Ralph

Best Quotes about Imagination

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Waitley, Denis

Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

Einstein, Albert

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Twain, Mark

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

Morrison, Alex

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Meredith, George

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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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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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Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Gerard, Ralph

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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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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Connelly, Billy

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

Brown, Gene

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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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 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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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

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Blake, William

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.