Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Imagination

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Coue, Emile

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

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 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

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

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

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

Brown, Gene

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Meredith, George

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

Verne, Jules

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

Serling, Rod

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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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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Conrad, Joseph

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Weil, Simone

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Charles F. Kettering

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

James, William

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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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