Motivational Quotes

Imagination

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

- Bernhard, Sandra

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

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

Orr, Leonard

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Bernhard, Sandra

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

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Verne, Jules

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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 imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Weil, Simone

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Gerard, Ralph

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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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The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind.

Zilbergeld, Bernie

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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

Brown, Gene

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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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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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Twain, Mark

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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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.