Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Capability means imagination...

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Coue, Emile

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

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Ruskin, John

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Einstein, Albert

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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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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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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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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, 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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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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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

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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Serling, Rod

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

Success Magazine

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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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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