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“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.”

Book Opportunity Given Imagination Essentials Traits Soar

Author:Saint Augustine

“All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.”

Ifs Needs Ideas Form Given Imagination Mistake Painting Concepts Permanent

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to release those qualities of your mind that can generate images of the world as you would prefer it to be or the world as you declare it to be.”

World Mind Moments Given Imagination Quality Failing Release

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.”

Reality Given Imagination Talking Machines Engines Telephones My Imagination Automobile Steam Steam Engines Imagination And Reality Imagination Reality

Book:The Complete Wizard of Oz (Includes Encyclopedia of Oz and Biography of L. Frank Baum)

Source: The Complete Wizard of Oz (Includes Encyclopedia of Oz and Biography of L. Frank Baum)

“Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong. Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.”

Humans Able Individual Given Imagination Common Expression Capacity Dignity Democratic Practicals Common Sense Thanks Panic Underrated

Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.”

Source: The English Poets Lessing: Rousseau

“Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given us by the Holy Ghost in the Scripture, do feign unto themselves false representations of him by images and pictures, so as to excite carnal and corrupt affections in their minds. By the help of their outward senses, they reflect on their imaginations the shape of a human body, cast into postures and circumstances dolorous or triumphant; and so, by the working of their fancy, raise a commotion of mind in themselves, which they suppose to be love unto Christ.”

Source: The Person of Christ

“Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.”

“The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.”

Men Spiritual Given Imagination Gone Genius Enlightenment Insight Bread Our Time Etc Atoms Mystical Jet Splitting Spiritual Insight Penicillin Propulsion

Book:Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes

Source: Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes

“People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.”

People World Use Age Happiness Joy Given Imagination Grief Wonderful Childhood Unhappy Bland Happy Childhood Unhappy Childhood

Author:Sue Grafton

“To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.”

Use Able Speak Given Imagination Creative Creator Storyteller Speak The Truth

Author:Common