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

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

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.

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Bernhard, Sandra

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Serling, Rod

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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

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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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You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Morrison, Alex

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Blake, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

Success Magazine

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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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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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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.