Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ward, William A.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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 imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Twain, Mark

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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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It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

Ruskin, John

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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Verne, Jules

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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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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I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

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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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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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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Brown, Gene

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You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Morrison, Alex

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Weil, Simone

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Einstein, Albert

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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