Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Jung, Carl

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Brown, Gene

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

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Orr, Leonard

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Einstein, Albert

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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 gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

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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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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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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

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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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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mark Twain

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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