Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have crossed bridges in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

Library, Speakers

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Brown, Gene

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Meredith, George

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

Serling, Rod

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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

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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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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Ruskin, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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, 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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein