Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Success Magazine

Best Quotes about Imagination

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Meredith, George

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proust, Marcel

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

12.

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

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

Verne, Jules

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Bernhard, Sandra

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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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I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.

Devore, Stephen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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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

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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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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Success Magazine

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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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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