Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

Weil, Simone

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.

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

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Carson, Rachel

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

Charles F. Kettering

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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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Orr, Leonard

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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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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Verne, Jules

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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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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Brown, Les

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.