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Imagination And The Benefit Of Cultivating It.

The mind can make substance and people planets of its own.–Byron.

The universe to man is but a projection of his own inner consciousness.– Kant.

Imagination is the most powerful and, in many ways the most interesting of the powers of the mind.
Without it the mankind would be sterile. Not only would there be no pictures, no music, no books, but there would be no houses, no bridges, no great business enterprises — nothing.
In truth for everything that man has created he had first of all to conceived it in his imagination before it could come into creation.

It is impossible for us to think of a person without us first of all using out imagination.

Those who are lacking or limited in their imagination run the risk of being considered, uninteresting, and of little use or significance in the world.

A man or woman may be lacking in imagination and yet be honest, hard working, conscientious.
But for such a person the higher rewards of life may appear unachievable.

A person may make an excellent bookkeeper, but never become an accountant; a skilful word processor, but never a personal assistant, a great storeman, but never a salesman.
The salesman, the personal assistant the accountant, must have imagination.

Naturally when it comes to any actual creative work such as painting, sculpture, or musical composition–the power of an imagination, that is highly trained, polished, audacious, and bright, is the most important element.
The creators of famous masterpieces have, often, lacked everything else except for this one thing–imagination.
Some of the great known artists have lived all their lives in misery and deprivation.
Some have been illiterate, some have been crude, some have been immoral, some have been bizarre, some have been almost or quite insane.

But the one thing that they all possessed — a superb imagination.

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