Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Imagination

Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

Gerard, Ralph

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

Morrison, Alex

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

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

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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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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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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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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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Sean O'Faolain

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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Proust, Marcel

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

Verne, Jules

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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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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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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

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Rainbow, George Weiss

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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

Success Magazine

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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

Meredith, George

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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 eye of the soul.

Joubert, 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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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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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

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

Pascal, Blaise