Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Serling, Rod

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

James, William

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Brown, Gene

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

Weil, Simone

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

Gerard, Ralph

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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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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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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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert

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

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Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

Kline, Peter

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Twain, Mark

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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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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I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Connelly, Billy

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Anderson, Marian

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

Mencken, H. L.