Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Collier, Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Brown, Gene

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

Serling, Rod

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

Meredith, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Anthony, Dr. 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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Imagination decides everything.

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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proust, Marcel