Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

Ward, William A.

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Brown, Gene

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

Success Magazine

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

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

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Meredith, George

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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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The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

Bierstedt, Robert

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Verne, Jules

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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

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Collier, Robert

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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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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

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Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward