Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Coue, Emile

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

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

Mark Twain

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Miller, Henry

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

Orr, Leonard

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Einstein, Albert

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Berger, John

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Success Magazine

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Twain, Mark

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

Morrison, Alex

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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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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.

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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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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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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

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Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Serling, Rod

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.