Motivational Quotes

Imagination

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative success mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Sade, Marquis De

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Mark Twain

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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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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Meredith, George

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Morrison, Alex

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Verne, Jules

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Miller, Henry

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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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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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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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Anderson, Marian

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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.