Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Coue, Emile

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

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

Einstein, Albert

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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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

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

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Verne, Jules

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

Ruskin, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

34.

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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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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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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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Berger, John

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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

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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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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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

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.