The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen. Robert L Schwartz It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? Cesare Pavese Italian author, novelist, & translator (1908 - 1950) Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead. Dr. Maxwell Maltz All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961) First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. Napoleon Hill Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them? Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it. Donald Curtis The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building. Robert Collier What is now proved was only once imagined. Blake In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. Pliny the Elder Roman scholar & scientist (23 AD - 79 AD) |