Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Twain, Mark

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

Morrison, Alex

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Serling, Rod

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Sean O'Faolain

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

Gerard, Ralph

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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 important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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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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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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People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Thoreau, Henry David

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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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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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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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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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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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Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Brown, Gene

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

Einstein, Albert

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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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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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.