Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Morrison, Alex

Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

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

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Ruskin, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Twain, Mark

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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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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Weil, Simone

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

Ward, William A.

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

Gerard, Ralph

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Success Magazine

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Verne, Jules

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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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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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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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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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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