Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Bernhard, Sandra

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Bach, Richard

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

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Success Magazine

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Einstein, Albert

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Verne, Jules

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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J.K. Rowling

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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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 the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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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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Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Charles F. Kettering

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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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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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Mark Twain

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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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