Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Carson, Rachel

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

Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Brande, Dorothea

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

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruskin, John

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Morrison, Alex

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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

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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

Pound, Ezra

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Rainbow, George Weiss

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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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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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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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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