If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.
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If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.
I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings
Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries
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