Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Rainbow, George Weiss

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Serling, Rod

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.

James, William

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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 man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

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It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Orr, Leonard

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I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.

Devore, Stephen

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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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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ruskin, John

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

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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