Previous Reflections

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Compromises are for relationships, not wine. - Robert S Caywood

Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. - Oscar Wilde

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

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

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

Entertainment is a thing of the past, today we've got television. - Archie Bunker

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

Every day I beat my previous record for number of days I've stayed alive. - George Carlin

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. - Beverly Sills

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. - George Carlin

How you see your future is much more important than what has happened in the past. - Zig Ziglar

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. - Warren Buffett

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. - Laurence J. Peter

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

Death is the last enemy; once we've got past that I think everything will be all right. - Alice Thomas Ellis

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. - Thomas Paine

That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney

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

I have a Rubik's Cube for a rearview mirror, because the past is the only time puzzle I can solve. - Jarod Kintz

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

The present contains nothing more than the past. And what is found in the effect was already in the cause. - Henri Bergson

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it. - Ravi Zacharias

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. - Peter F Drucker

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. - Mark Batterson

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial. - Winston Churchill

Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance. - Scott B Kaufman

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. - Denis Waitley

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. - Patrick Henry