Motivational Quotes

Imagination

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Imagination

Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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.

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

Anderson, Marian

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

Mcdonald, John

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

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Miller, Henry

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

12.

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

13.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

Success Magazine

21.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

22.

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

23.

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

24.

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

25.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

28.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Proust, Marcel

29.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

33.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

34.

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

Morrison, Alex

35.

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

36.

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

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

38.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

39.

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

40.

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

Serling, Rod

41.

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

42.

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

43.

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

Brown, Gene

44.

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.

45.

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.

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

48.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

49.

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

50.

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