Motivational Quotes

Imagination

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Imagination

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

Collier, Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Serling, Rod

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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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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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mark Twain

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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

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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, 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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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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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Proust, Marcel

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Meredith, George

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The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

Hill, Napoleon

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Ruskin, John

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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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

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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John