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

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

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Sade, Marquis De

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

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Weil, Simone

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

Ruskin, John

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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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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Coue, Emile

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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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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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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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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Twain, Mark

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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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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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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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shaw, P.K.

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Orr, Leonard

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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Hill, Napoleon

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I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.

Devore, Stephen

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See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert