Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

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

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Mark Twain

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Morrison, Alex

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Serling, Rod

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

Weil, Simone

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gerard, Ralph

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Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

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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See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert

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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Orr, Leonard

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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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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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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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J.K. Rowling

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have crossed bridges in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

Library, Speakers

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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.

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Waitley, Denis

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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, 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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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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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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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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It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

Ruskin, John