Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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.

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Coue, Emile

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Twain, Mark

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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Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

Kline, Peter

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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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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

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

Serling, Rod

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building -- steadily building.

Collier, Robert

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

Brown, Les

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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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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ruskin, John

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

Speare, Grace

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

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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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See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Verne, Jules

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Anderson, Marian