Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Ruskin, John

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

Brande, Dorothea

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

If you clearly and vividly IMAGINE yourself in the first person doing, being, having the things and qualities you truly want... then you will be using positive imagination to begin a change to fulfilling that image.

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

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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

Serling, Rod

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Ruskin, John

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

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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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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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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

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

Meredith, George

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

Mark Twain

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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Orr, Leonard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Coue, Emile

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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 the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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 the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Weil, Simone

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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.

James, William