Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Capability means imagination...

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Weil, Simone

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Ruskin, John

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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

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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

Mcdonald, John

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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 one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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.

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Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Coue, Emile

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Morrison, Alex

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Gerard, Ralph

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Richards, Mary Caroline