Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

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

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Waitley, Denis

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Meredith, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

Einstein, Albert

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Mark Twain

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Verne, Jules

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

Gerard, Ralph

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Bunuel, Luis