Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

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.

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

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

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Meredith, George

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Einstein, Albert

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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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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Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Waitley, Denis

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Mark Twain

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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

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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