Motivational Quotes

Imagination

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Douglas, Mack R.

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Sade, Marquis De

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Serling, Rod

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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

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Bach, Richard

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Verne, Jules

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J.K. Rowling

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

Gerard, Ralph

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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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I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Rainbow, George Weiss

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

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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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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