Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Rainbow, George Weiss

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Weil, Simone

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

Ruskin, John

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Brown, Les

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Meredith, George

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Blake, William

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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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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Proust, Marcel

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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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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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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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.