Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

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Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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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 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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Verne, Jules

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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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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The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building -- steadily building.

Collier, Robert

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Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

Kline, Peter

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

Brown, Les

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To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Bach, Richard

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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 most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Meredith, George

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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 is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Gerard, Ralph

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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Carson, Rachel

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

Weil, Simone

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

Serling, Rod

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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