Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Kettering, Charles F.

Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

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

Morrison, Alex

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.

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

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

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

Meredith, George

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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Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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 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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Verne, Jules

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

Charles F. Kettering

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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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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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Brown, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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 is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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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

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

James, William

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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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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.