Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Imagination

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

Mcdonald, John

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

Collier, Robert

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

Orr, Leonard

Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

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.

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

Serling, Rod

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

James, William

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

Meredith, George

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Twain, Mark

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Gerard, Ralph

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

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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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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 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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Charles F. Kettering

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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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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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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Thoreau, Henry David

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon