Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Imagination

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Johnson, Samuel

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

Ward, William A.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Brown, Les

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

When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

Anderson, Marian

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

Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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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

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Serling, Rod

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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

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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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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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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Charles F. Kettering

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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan