Know Where You Stand

Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

I get a standing ovation just standing. - George Burns

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

Don't just do something, stand there. - Daniel Berrigan

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. - Ansel Adams

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

Don't just stand there; make something happen. - Lee Iacocca

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

Success will come to the side that has the last man standing. - Philippe Petain

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb

I got nothin' against mankind. It's people I can't stand. - Archie Bunker

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

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

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

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

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

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

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

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

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

It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses. - Estella Warren

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. - Henrik Ibsen

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment. - Charlie Kimball

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. - Abraham Lincoln

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

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. - Norman Vincent Peale

Rather than the strength it takes to not lose, it's the strength to stand back up after a loss that is sometimes more valuable. - Kyo Shirodaira

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated. - Kevin Costner

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

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

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true. - Lily Collins

Advice from a tree:
- Stand tall and proud
- Go out on a limb
- Remember your roots
- Drink plenty of water
- Enjoy the view - Unknown