Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about 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

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Verne, Jules

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

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

Brown, Gene

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

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

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Ruskin, John

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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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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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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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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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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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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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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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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert