Five minutes just before going to sleep given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow will steadily and increasingly bear fruit particularly if all ideas...
When there is no vision people perish.
The first step to having something in your life is to see yourself having it in your mind.
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
If we have not achieved our early dreams we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth we need not weep like Alexan...
What man can imagine he may one day achieve.
One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
The history of all times and of today especially teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
To the lack of incentive to effort which is the awful shadow under which we live may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways-in science in politics in every bold intention. It is part of our collective lives entwining our...
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that...
Our visions begin with our desires.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Instead of thinking about where you are think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.
Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.
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