Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Imagination

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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.

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

Weil, Simone

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

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

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Mark Twain

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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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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 imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind.

Zilbergeld, Bernie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Orr, Leonard

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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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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I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Rainbow, George Weiss

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Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

Tesla, Nikola

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

Verne, Jules