Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

If you clearly and vividly IMAGINE yourself in the first person doing, being, having the things and qualities you truly want... then you will be using positive imagination to begin a change to fulfilling that image.

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

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Coue, Emile

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

Brown, Les

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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The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Sade, Marquis De

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Weil, Simone

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Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gerard, Ralph

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bernhard, Sandra

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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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 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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Success Magazine

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Verne, Jules

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

Orr, Leonard

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cooley, Charles Horton