Motivational Quotes

Imagination

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Meredith, George

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Weil, Simone

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

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

Weil, Simone

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Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

Kline, Peter

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I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.

Nicklaus, Jack

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Ruskin, John

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

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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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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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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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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.

James, William

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

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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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You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Morrison, Alex

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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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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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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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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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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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Sade, Marquis De