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Saturday, 30 August 2008
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"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children." (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von - Age and Aging)

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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.
Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.
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.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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.
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.
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.
Capability means imagination...
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Everything you can imagine is real.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your 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.
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.
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.
Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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.
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.
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
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?
I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.
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.
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.
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
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.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
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.
If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.
Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.
Imagination decides everything.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.
Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
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.
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
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.
Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Imagination rules the world.
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.
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.
It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.
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.
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.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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!
Man is an imagining being.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
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.
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.