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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

“With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.”

Imagination Progress Weapons Weakness Destroyed Visualization Tedium

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure.”

“It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.”

Men World Might Imagination Progress

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.”

Art War Mother Term Imagination Progress Cry Expression Revolution Experiments Invention Nurse Voyages Ennui

Book:Poets of America

Source: Poets of America

“vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of scientists to vivisection, which is the easy and cheap way, actually prevents them from scientific progress, for true progress is difficult and requires genius and imagination in its devoted workers.”

Way Easy Difficult Imagination Animal Progress Genius Scientist Workers Animal Rights Dedication Devoted Wholesale Vivisection Scientific Progress

Book:Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings

Source: Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings

“Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...”

“Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.”

Happens Imagination Progress Things Happen Make Things Happen

Book:Marketing Imagination: New, Expanded Edition

Source: Marketing Imagination: New, Expanded Edition

“As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.”

Force Imagination Quality Progress Primaries

Author:John Ralston Saul

“The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .”

“Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.”

Men Mind Heart Doe Hands Imagination Wonder Moral Steps Progress Farce

Author:Vance Havner