Motivational Quotes

Imagination

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Imagination

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Sean O'Faolain

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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

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

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Ruskin, John

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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gerard, Ralph

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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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The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Twain, Mark

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

Weil, Simone

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Orr, Leonard

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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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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 most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Meredith, George

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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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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

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

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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