Playing Mantis

Worry is a waste of the imagination. - Unknown

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators. - Alyxandra Harvey

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence. - Mark Batterson

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

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

With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown

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

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

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

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C S Lewis

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

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high stakes Scrabble. - Dennis Miller

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. - Oliver W. Holmes

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean. - Zach Galifianakis

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. - Robert Lynd

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

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

Managing only for profit is like playing tennis with your eye on the scoreboard and not on the ball. - Ichak Adizes

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. - Mark Twain

I'm a chameleon when it come to guitar playing, and like to stretch out into different territories. - Nancy Wilson

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb

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

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

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

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

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination: anything that is far away from reality as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. - Peter De Vries