Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Brown, Gene

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

Pound, Ezra

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collier, Robert

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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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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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Verne, Jules

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

Serling, Rod

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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

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

Meredith, George

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

Ruskin, John

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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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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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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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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

J.K. Rowling

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Memory feeds imagination.