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

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

Collier, 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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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.

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

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Serling, Rod

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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 highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Brown, Gene

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Blake, William

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Meredith, George

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Weil, Simone

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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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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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt