Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Anderson, Marian

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

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

Brown, Les

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Verne, Jules

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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

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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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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 disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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 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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Mark Twain

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

Weil, Simone

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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