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To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.: C. C. Colton
Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.: X. Doudan
It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.: Vinet
The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes.: Dugald Stewart
My method is different. I don't rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the devise in my mind. When I have gone as far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.: Win Ng
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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 (1706 - 1790)

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