Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

- Gallimore, J. G.

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Miller, Henry

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

Bach, Richard

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

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.

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

Success Magazine

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Vizinczey, Stephen

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 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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Charles F. Kettering

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Meredith, George