Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Ruskin, John

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.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Orr, Leonard

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

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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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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

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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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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.

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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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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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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Thoreau, Henry David

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Charles F. Kettering