Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Gerard, Ralph

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Weil, Simone

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

Meredith, George

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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Sade, Marquis De

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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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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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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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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Verne, Jules

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

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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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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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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ruskin, John

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