Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Waitley, Denis

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

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

James, William

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

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Ward, William A.

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

Serling, Rod

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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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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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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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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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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Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!

Collier, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Orr, Leonard

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