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“Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.”

Book:The Secret Of Success

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The Secret Of Success

This book explores various strategies and principles that contribute to success in life and work. more

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William Walker Atkinson

William Walker Atkinson was an American author, born on December 5, 1862, and died on November 22, 1932. He is known for his writings in the fields of personal development, self-help, and mysticism. more

“Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.”

Way Art Light Together Imagination Creative Seeing Special Tasks Symbols Faculty Discovering Joining

Book:Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected

Source: Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected

“Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the outside through the senses, or from the inside through the driving power of curiosity and discontent.”

Mind Art Light Spirit Imagination Creative Fire Curiosity Driving Senses Flames Discontent Light Up Ignite Creative Spirit

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“Imagination stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind abundant data with which to work. It opens the gate to dreams and fantasies so that you may become receptive, as a little child, in exploring the Kingdom of Ideas.”

Thinking Giving Mind May Children Littles Art Ideas Dream Imagination Fantasy Kingdoms Data Gates Working It Exploring Receptive

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.”

Art Individual Imagination Approach Concepts Crowds Guides Contact

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“Imagination inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into the light of day. Imagination becomes for you a magic lamp with which to search the darkness of the unknown, that you may discover new goals or chart more productive paths to old goals.”

Looks May Art Light Eye Goal Imagination Dark Darkness Path Magic Inspire Productive Lamps Tunnels New Goal

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in your search for creative answers to problems. Imagination "stirs up the gift of God in thee." Through your imagination you touch and express the inspiration of the Infinite. Imagination, in the words of Shakespeare, "gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name." You reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, then you bring it down to earth and make it work.”

Giving Art Ideas Facts Helping Problem Reality Inspiration Earth Names Heaven Imagination Answers Creative Infinite Locals Thee Penetrate Rise Above Gift From God Down To Earth Airy

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.”

Art Spirit Fun Bits Imagination Mistake Pure Edges Boring

Author:Wavy Gravy

“Imagination begins when it' s raining too hard to go out and play and you become really absorbed in something you would never have thought of doing had the sun come out as usual. In which case, thank God for the rain.”

Art Hard Play Imagination Cases Sun Rain Thank God Usual

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon it will not make it heavier; and there is no pleasure so vivid that the animation of fancy cannot liven it.”

Wells Art Joy Imagination Pleasure Grief Color Fancy Strongest Vivid Animation Pondering

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.”

Mind Humans Art Made Body Imagination Remarkable Untrustworthy

Author:John Masefield

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