Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Proust, Marcel

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.

James, William

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

Mark Twain

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

Success Magazine

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 most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Meredith, George

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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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 more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Einstein, Albert

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The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building -- steadily building.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Rainbow, George Weiss

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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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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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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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