Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Shaw, P.K.

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Charles F. Kettering

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Einstein, Albert

Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

Tesla, Nikola

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

Ruskin, John

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Success Magazine

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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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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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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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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Coue, Emile

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

Gerard, Ralph

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building -- steadily building.

Collier, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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

Verne, Jules

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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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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein