Motivational Quotes

Imagination

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Brown, Les

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Sean O'Faolain

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

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

Orr, Leonard

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Success Magazine

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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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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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 mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

Douglas, Mack R.

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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 is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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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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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Serling, Rod

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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

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

Gerard, Ralph

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Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Bach, Richard