Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Imagination

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

Ward, William A.

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Meredith, George

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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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Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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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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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.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Brown, Les

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

Proust, Marcel

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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 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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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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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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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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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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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston