Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Hill, Napoleon

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Johnson, Samuel

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Twain, Mark

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gerard, Ralph

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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

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

Verne, Jules

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

Orr, Leonard

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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Waitley, Denis

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Mark Twain

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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