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Capability means imagination...
-Napoleon Hill
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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.
-Napoleon Hill
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Play the glass,Perform the glassWith a motion of the glass,with one breath,a multitude of tones are played on the glassThe glass like a living bodygrows and changes its formAll th shapes played by the glass resound with beautyWhen blowing the glass I feel like a maestroThen suddenly come to myselfand I am just a child playing with soap bubbles
-Hiruomi
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Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .
-Shirley Jackson
The Bird's Nest (pt. IV), 1954
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.
-William James
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
-Samuel Johnson
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
-Joseph Joubert
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
-Joseph Joubert
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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... for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are. You see it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
-Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
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Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.
-Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
-Franz Kafka
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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
-John Keats
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
-John Keats
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Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'
NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.
-Robert Francis Kennedy
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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.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.
-Peter Kline
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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.
-Ursula K. LeGuin
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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.
-John D. MacDonald
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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.
-Paul Mallory
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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.
-Maxwell Maltz
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Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
-Maxwell Maltz
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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.
-Maxwell Maltz
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Books about Imagination
