THE POWER OF CREATIVITY AND THE IMAGINATION

Presented by:Bruce Black Art.com

What is imagination? • Imagination is governed by no rules or laws

either physical or civil.

• Imagination comes from a place of unlimited energy and capacity.

• Creativity is the physical embodiment of the imagination.

• “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world” Albert Einstein

Einstein on the Imagination

• “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

• “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

• “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

“What is now proved was only once imagined.” -William Blake

I then shouted into M [the mouthpiece] the following sentence: "Mr. Watson, come here -- I want to see you." To my delight he came and declared that he had heard and understood what I said.

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, it must have seemed like magic!

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

-Einstein

IMAGINATION

Beam me up Scotty!

1485-1500 Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines and parachute.

1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine.

1969 U.S. astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., are the first to walk on the moon.

2000 First crew arrives to take up residence in the International Space Station.

IMAGINATION IS CUMULATIVE: WHAT IS FIRST IMPOSSIBLE EVOLVES TO BECOME THE STANDARD.

DON’T THINK

SMALL!

Let your imagination run wild. Eventually, reality will catch up to it.Mars Rover Launch: June 10th, 2003.

Never let someone else define your imagination no matter how well meaning they are!

• Parents• Teachers• Experts • Friends • Critics

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.” BUDDHA

We all have experienced someone trying to tell us how we should live or what we should believe in. People who are negative and do not support your imagination are not necessarily smarter. Perhaps they are simply followers and want you to be one too. Lead the way and remove negative people from your life!

Creativity, like most things, requires practice and use.

Practice removing self doubting thoughts from your mind. They are anchors to your future success.

•I AM ……..(positive thought)

No Way! Everyone knows fire comes from the sky, not from sticks. You should give up!

YOU ARE WHAT YOU IMAGINE YOURSELF TO BE!

If I told you, in order to jump off of a thousand foot cliff and live, all you needed was imagination,

would you believe me?

Of course you can jump off a cliff and live! Think hang glider, parachute, bungee-cord.

IT JUST TAKES

IMAGINATION

Leonardo da Vinci was an idiot. (He actually thought man could fly!.........oh yeah, he can.)

Da Vinci invented many things in his lifetime that were impossible in his age. It took future generations to fully realize his genius…..scuba diving, submarines, flying machines, machine guns, armored cars, etc., etc.

Impression—I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it ... and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape. -Louis Leroy

It is a good thing that Monet did not listen to his critics.

Impression: The Sunrise, 1873

What is your concept of self?

• How you imagine yourself to be has the power to make you who you are.

• “Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind – that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.” -Neville Goddard

By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. -Nikos Kasantzakis (Zorba the Greek).

Some Birds and Bees see in the ultraviolet spectrum. Some bats can see both ultraviolet and infrared light. Imagine what we are not seeing?

Your Dreams are Your Own

• Know the difference between dreams and goals. Goals take you to your dreams.

• Dream large. Dream larger than even your perceived ability to fulfill your dream.

• Dream your own dream. It’s your life and your imagination.

• Hang a DO NOT DISTURB sign on your imagination.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.-e. e. cummings

Use Your Imagination to Create Your Future

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down,

a sun dropped in the west.

I tell you there is nothing in the world

only an ocean of tomorrows,

a sky of tomorrows.

Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967)

Caspar David Friedrich Monk by the sea 1809

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashesI tell you yesterday is a wind gone down,

a sun dropped in the west.I tell you there is nothing in the world

only an ocean of tomorrows,a sky of tomorrows.

From Carl sandburg’s poem “Prairie.”

PRACTICE• KEEP A JOURNAL OF YOUR IDEAS

• KEEP A SKETCHBOOK OF DRAWINGS

• DON’T WORRY IF YOUR IDEAS SEEM RIDUCUOUS EVEN TO YOU. NO ONE ELSE NEEDS TO KNOW…..YET.

• SET SOME SMALL MEASURABLE GOALS TO GET YOU GOING.

• THINK OF YOUR DREAMS AS A MOUNTAIN THAT YOU MUST CLIMB ONE STEP AT A TIME. YOU WILL GET THERE AS LONG AS YOU DON’T GIVE UP.

• KEEP PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT YOU NEAR AND DISREGARD ALL OTHERS!

When you walk to your dream your dream walks to

you.

“Disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire. Rest in the assumption that you are already what you want to be, for in that determined assumption you and your Infinite Being are merged in creative unity, and with your Infinite Being all things are possible.”

Neville

3 Important Things

• “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.” -Einstein

• “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” -Henry David Thoreau

• “If all that now exists was once imagined, then what you want to exist for you in the future must now be imagined.” -Dyer

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.You have wings.Learn to use them and fly.

-Rumi

Rumi, (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet,

jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.

MEMORIZE THIS AND REPEAT DAILY

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• Presented by: Bruce Black Art.com