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

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Serling, Rod

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Miller, Henry

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Morrison, Alex

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

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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

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.

James, William

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

Einstein, Albert

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Orr, Leonard

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Charles F. Kettering

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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J.K. Rowling

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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

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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.