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"If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate...not following the thought stream...not pursuing the senses, no imagination...s uch an intense Self-focusing comes without any effort...then, by itself...out of nowhere, wisdom and insights come."
"Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African."
"Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind."
"Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them."
"So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life."
"Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination."
"Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth"
"Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection."
"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets."
"The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself."
"I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain."
"You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world."
"A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations."
"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination."
"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns."
"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."
"A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him."
"Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create."
"Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination."
"Reality is for people that lack imagination."
