"Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal Reality-Now."
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"Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination."
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"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."
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"My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age."
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"Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure another set. Those that tell us that there is sin and sorrow and death in the world are terrible. But the other set - thou art holy, there is God, there is no pain - these are good, and help to break the bondage of the others. The highest imagination that can break all the links of the chain is that of the Personal God."
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"For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination."
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"Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future."
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"I'm very frustrated by fear of imagination. I don't think that's healthy."
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"Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog."
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"They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream."
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"Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past."
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"Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration."
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"The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature."
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"The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction."
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"Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest."
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"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."
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"Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination."
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"Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change."
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"You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams."
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"Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like."
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