Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

- Jules de Gaultier

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Anthony, Dr. 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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Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

Collier, Robert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Serling, Rod

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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

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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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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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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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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Brown, Gene

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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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

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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Verne, Jules

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.