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

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Miller, Henry

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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ruskin, John

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People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Einstein, Albert