It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Topic: Goals, Imagination, Purpose, Visualize
- Location: Grand Teton National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
