Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

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

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

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

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

Serling, Rod

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

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

Success Magazine

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

Weil, Simone

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

Brown, Les

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Brown, Gene

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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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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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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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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

Meredith, George

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

Mencken, H. L.

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When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

Anderson, Marian

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

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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