Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert

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

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

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

Ruskin, John

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

Breton, Andre

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

Einstein, Albert

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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

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

Meredith, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Verne, Jules

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

Twain, Mark

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Orr, Leonard

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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.

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Brown, Gene

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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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.