Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Shaw, P.K.

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Weil, Simone

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

Success Magazine

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

Verne, Jules

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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Gerard, Ralph

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I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Connelly, Billy

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Brown, Les

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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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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

Tesla, Nikola

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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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The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building -- steadily building.

Collier, Robert

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Waitley, Denis

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I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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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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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Bunuel, Luis

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Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!

Collier, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo