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- Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
- Vinet
- 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
- 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
- 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 (1908 - 1950)
- 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
- Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.
- Smart
- There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.
- Francis A. Carter
- False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
- Author Unknown
- True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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