Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Serling, Rod

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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

Twain, Mark

Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Carlyle, Thomas

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Morrison, Alex

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Coue, Emile

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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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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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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

Mcdonald, John

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

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

James, William

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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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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Anderson, Marian

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

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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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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Meredith, George

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

Bierstedt, Robert

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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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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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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