Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

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

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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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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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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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

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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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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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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.

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

Success Magazine

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

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

Weil, Simone

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

James, William

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mark Twain

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Serling, Rod

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

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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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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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