Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Imagination

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.

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Meredith, George

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

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

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

Tesla, Nikola

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

Brown, Les

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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

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Weil, Simone

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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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 eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Serling, Rod

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward