Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Meredith, George

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

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

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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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

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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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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

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Brown, Gene

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

Ruskin, John

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Brown, Les

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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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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 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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Serling, Rod

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan