Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Imagination

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Success Magazine

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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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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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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Mark Twain

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

28.

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

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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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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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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Gerard, Ralph

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