Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Imagination

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

Morrison, Alex

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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

Weil, Simone

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Gerard, Ralph

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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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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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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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, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

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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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I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Shaw, P.K.

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The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building -- steadily building.

Collier, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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