Previous Reflections

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

Your past does not determine your future. - Nido Qubein

Forget the past and live the present hour. - Sarah Knowles Bolton

The past is a guide post, not a hitching post. - L. Thomas Holdcroft

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

Remember the past, live in the present, look to the future. - Joe Segal

The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships. - Eric Metaxas

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

Those who cannot remember the past are destined to repeat it. - George Santayana

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past. - Mark Batterson

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. - Bobby Knight

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

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. - Walt Disney

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

The past is frozen and no longer flows, and the present is all lit up with eternal rays. - C S Lewis

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey

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

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. - Confucius

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

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

Successful people seek out their futures from the present; failures seek out their futures from the past. - Li Ao

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. - Barbara de Angelis

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

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. - Learned Hand

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way. - Edna Ferber

We cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past. - Henry David Thoreau

For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media. But the Internet is becoming the umbrella. - Larry Weber

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any. - Orson S. Card