Motivational Quotes

Imagination

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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.

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

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

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Shaw, P.K.

14.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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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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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Meredith, George

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Ruskin, John

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

Brown, Gene

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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

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

Verne, Jules

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

Morrison, Alex

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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