Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

- Tom Stoppard

Best Quotes about Imagination

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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 voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Miller, Henry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Mark Twain

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

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Ruskin, John

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Serling, Rod

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Anderson, Marian

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame