Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Morrison, Alex

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

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

Charles F. Kettering

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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.

Weil, Simone

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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Orr, Leonard

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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

Tesla, Nikola

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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Einstein, Albert

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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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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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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I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Anderson, Marian

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Verne, Jules

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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.