Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Twain, Mark

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

Kline, Peter

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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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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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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Verne, Jules

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Charles F. Kettering

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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 is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Brown, Les

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

Serling, Rod

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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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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