Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Imagination

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Brown, Gene

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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

Meredith, George

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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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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Brown, Les

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Bernhard, Sandra

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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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Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Bell, E. T.

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Verne, Jules

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

Einstein, Albert

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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.