Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Ruskin, John

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

Ward, William A.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Verne, Jules

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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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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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Berger, John

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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

Breton, Andre

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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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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Bach, Richard

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

James, William

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When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

Anderson, Marian

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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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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

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.

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

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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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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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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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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You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Morrison, Alex

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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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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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

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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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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Ruskin, John

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