The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.
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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
› Plato
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
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
› Walt Disney
A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.
› Charles Schwab
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
› Francis Bacon
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
› Albert Einstein
You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.
› James Baldwin
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
› Ayn Rand
On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.
› Moliere
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
› Epictetus
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
› Voltaire
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
› Adam Smith
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
› Anthony Robbins
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
› Francis Bacon
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
› Dalai Lama
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
› Plato
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
› James Allen
