Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

- Jules de Gaultier

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Weil, Simone

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

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

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

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

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

Proust, Marcel

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

Meredith, George

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Serling, Rod

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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 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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

James, William

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Brown, Les

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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Sade, Marquis De

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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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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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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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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Bernhard, Sandra

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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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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Blake, William

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Twain, Mark