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

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

Orr, Leonard

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

Breton, Andre

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Brown, Gene

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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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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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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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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If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Bernhard, Sandra

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

Mark Twain