Motivational Quotes

Imagination

The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

- Douglas, Mack R.

Best Quotes about Imagination

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

Collier, Robert

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

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

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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

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

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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The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Verne, Jules

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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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

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

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Weil, Simone

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Orr, Leonard