Motivational Quotes

Imagination

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Imagination

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Kettering, Charles F.

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Meredith, George

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

By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

Success Magazine

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Hill, Napoleon

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Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Twain, Mark

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Orr, Leonard

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

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.

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

Brown, Les

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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

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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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 you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.

James, William

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Verne, Jules

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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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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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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