Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Charles F. Kettering

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Einstein, Albert

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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Ruskin, John

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Ruskin, John

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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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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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Brown, Les

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

Success Magazine

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

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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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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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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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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Verne, Jules

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To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.