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

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

Mark Twain

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Verne, Jules

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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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

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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Hill, Napoleon

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Ruskin, John

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

Brown, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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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

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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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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

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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

Ward, William A.

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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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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Gerard, Ralph

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

Serling, Rod

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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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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 are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Orr, Leonard

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

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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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