Playing Mantis

When you pray, move your feet. - African Proverb

Worry is a waste of the imagination. - Unknown

Worry is simply imagination gone awry. - Peter Alwinson

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

We have to pray on behalf of those who do not pray. - Mother Teresa

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Don't be afraid to pray big prayers, we serve a big God. - Unknown

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights. - Joel Osteen

Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. - Benjamin Franklin

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. - Steven Wright

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts. - David Seabury

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. - Donald Trump

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool. - Jonathan Swift

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living. - Nelson Mandela

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates