Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Bernhard, Sandra

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

Weil, Simone

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

Orr, Leonard

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Charles F. Kettering

Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

10.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

11.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Pascal, Blaise

13.

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

14.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

15.

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

16.

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

Brown, Les

17.

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

18.

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

19.

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert

20.

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

21.

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

Verne, Jules

22.

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

23.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Proust, Marcel

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

26.

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

Ruskin, John

27.

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

28.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

29.

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

30.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

33.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

34.

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

35.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.

James, William

36.

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

37.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

38.

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.

39.

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

Success Magazine

40.

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

41.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Miller, Henry

42.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

43.

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

44.

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

Ruskin, John

45.

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

46.

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

47.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

48.

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Brown, Gene

49.

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

50.

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