Motivational Quotes

Imagination

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

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Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Success Magazine

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

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

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!

Collier, Robert

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Orr, Leonard

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

Mark Twain

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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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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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Verne, Jules

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Pascal, Blaise

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