Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Imagination

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Johnson, Samuel

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

Ward, William A.

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

Collier, Robert

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Weil, Simone

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Serling, Rod

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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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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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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Gerard, Ralph

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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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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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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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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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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Orr, Leonard