Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Pascal, Blaise

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Brown, Les

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

Shaw, P.K.

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Bernhard, Sandra

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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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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Verne, Jules

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

Anderson, Marian