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

Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Ruskin, John

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

Anderson, Marian

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Ward, William A.

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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Gerard, Ralph

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Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Mark Twain

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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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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

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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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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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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Charles F. Kettering

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon