Motivational Quotes

Imagination

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Imagination

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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.

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

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

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

Speare, Grace

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

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

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Orr, Leonard

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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

Morrison, Alex

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Serling, Rod

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

Ruskin, John

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Mark Twain

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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Ruskin, John

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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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

Meredith, George

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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