Motivational Quotes

Imagination

People can die of mere imagination.

- Chaucer, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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.

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Bernhard, Sandra

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

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

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

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

Mark Twain

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Blake, William

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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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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Coue, Emile

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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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Orr, Leonard

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Weil, Simone

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