Motivational Quotes

Imagination

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Imagination

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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 one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!

Collier, Robert

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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Meredith, George

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

Weil, Simone

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

Orr, Leonard

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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.

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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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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Twain, Mark

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Bunuel, Luis