Motivational Quotes

Imagination

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Imagination

By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Ward, William A.

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

James, William

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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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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Anderson, Marian

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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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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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!

Collier, Robert

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Mark Twain

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

Twain, Mark

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

Meredith, George

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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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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Jung, Carl

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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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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Verne, Jules

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

Charles F. Kettering