Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Brown, Les

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

Weil, Simone

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

Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Anderson, Marian

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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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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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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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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Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Verne, Jules

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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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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Hill, Napoleon

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ruskin, John

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It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

Ruskin, John

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

Morrison, Alex