Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Imagination decides everything.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Verne, Jules

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Morrison, Alex

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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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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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Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

Tesla, Nikola

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Twain, Mark

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

Success Magazine

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

Mark Twain

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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Brown, Gene

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Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

Kline, Peter

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Meredith, George

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

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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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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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Ruskin, John

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.