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The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: "I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind.
Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.
I don't dream at night; I dream all day. I dream for a living.
When you think something, you think in pictures. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we emulate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and is it not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.