Motivational Quotes

Imagination

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

- Connelly, Billy

Best Quotes about Imagination

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Connelly, Billy

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

Verne, Jules

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Brown, Gene

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

Orr, Leonard

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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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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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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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

Meredith, George

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

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

Twain, Mark

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul