Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Blake, William

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Serling, Rod

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

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

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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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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 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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.

Weil, Simone

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Bell, E. T.

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

Brown, Gene

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Ruskin, John

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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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 decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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