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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
-John Ruskin
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
-John Ruskin
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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
-John Ruskin
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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
-Robert H. Schuller
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Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
-Rod Serling
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You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.
-Rod Serling
introduction to the original Twilight Zone
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I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. Its a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of lifes realities.
-Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
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You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'
the serpent saying to Eve
-George Bernard Shaw
Back to Methuselah
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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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People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.
-P.K. Shaw
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
-Charles Simic
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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.
-Grace Speare
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Skaters by their very nature are urban guerillas: they make everyday use of the useless artifacts of the technological burden, and employ the handiwork of the government/corporate structure in a thousand ways that the original architects could never dream of.
-Craig Stecyk
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
-Wallace Stevens
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
-Wallace Stevens
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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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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.
-Nikola Tesla
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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?
-Henry David Thoreau
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
-Henry David Thoreau
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We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.
-Thomas Troward
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You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus.
-Mark Twain
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Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
-Source Unknown
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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.
-Source Unknown
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You must pre-live the future... not re-live the past... and savor the moment.
-Source Unknown
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Books about Imagination
