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Imagination

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

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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

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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

James, William

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

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

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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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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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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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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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 first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Morrison, Alex

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

Ruskin, John

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

Brown, Les

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

Twain, Mark

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Capability means imagination...

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

Mark Twain

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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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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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