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

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Sade, Marquis De

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have crossed bridges in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

Library, Speakers

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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

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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 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

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

Meredith, George

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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

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

Brown, Gene

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

James, William

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Serling, Rod

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

Ruskin, John

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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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If you clearly and vividly IMAGINE yourself in the first person doing, being, having the things and qualities you truly want... then you will be using positive imagination to begin a change to fulfilling that image.

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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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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