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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. (Catherine the Great )
When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative success mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower. (Catherine the Great )
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. (Catherine the Great )
Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability. (Catherine the Great )
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. (Catherine the Great )
We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment. (Catherine the Great )
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money. (Catherine the Great )
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. (Catherine the Great )
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. (Catherine the Great )
You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it. (Catherine the Great )
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 tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity. (Catherine the Great )
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. (Catherine the Great )
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality. (Catherine the Great )
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income. (Catherine the Great )
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? (Catherine the Great )
Celebrate what you want to see more of. (Catherine the Great )
Everything you can imagine is real. (Catherine the Great )
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. (Catherine the Great )
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images. (Catherine the Great )
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much. (Catherine the Great )
I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money. (Catherine the Great )
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized. (Catherine the Great )
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest. (Catherine the Great )
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. (Catherine the Great )
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. (Catherine the Great )
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