Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Imagination

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

Collier, Robert

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

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

Twain, Mark

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

Breton, Andre

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mark Twain

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Charles F. Kettering

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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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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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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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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

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First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Brown, Gene

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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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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

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Verne, Jules

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Collier, Robert

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

Bernhard, Sandra

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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