Motivational Quotes

Imagination

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

Hill, Napoleon

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Morrison, Alex

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

Ward, William A.

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

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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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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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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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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

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

Anderson, Marian

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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

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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Mark Twain

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

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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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People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

Shaw, P.K.

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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

Orr, Leonard

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Meredith, George

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

Brown, Gene