Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Brande, Dorothea

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

The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind.

Zilbergeld, Bernie

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

Collier, Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Coue, Emile

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

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Serling, Rod

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Waitley, Denis

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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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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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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The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

Douglas, Mack R.

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Nicklaus, Jack

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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

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

Gerard, Ralph

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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Meredith, George