Motivational Quotes

Imagination

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Imagination

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Cooley, Charles Horton

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

Speare, Grace

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

James, William

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

Anderson, Marian

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Meredith, George

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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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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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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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 is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Serling, Rod

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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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 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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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Ruskin, John

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

Orr, Leonard

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

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