Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Imagination

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.

Weil, Simone

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Thoreau, Henry David

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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Imagination decides everything.

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

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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Gerard, Ralph

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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 more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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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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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Conrad, Joseph

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Brown, Les

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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