Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Morrison, Alex

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Verne, Jules

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Brown, Les

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

Weil, Simone

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

Mencken, H. L.

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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

Success Magazine

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Serling, Rod

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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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

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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