Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Capability means imagination...

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

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

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

Meredith, George

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

Coue, Emile

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Success Magazine

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.

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

James, William

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind.

Zilbergeld, Bernie

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Verne, Jules

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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

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Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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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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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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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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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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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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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Proust, Marcel

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

Ruskin, John

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

Brown, Les

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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.

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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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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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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