Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Success Magazine

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mark Twain

Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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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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

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

James, William

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Einstein, Albert

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

Collier, Robert

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

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Weil, Simone

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

Meredith, George

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

Orr, Leonard

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Einstein, Albert

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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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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