A motivational lecture on the power of imagination to fulfill your dreams and allow you to be the person you were meant to be. LOTS OF GREAT QUOTES AND PICTURES. YOU ARE SURE TO BE INSPIRED!

1. THE POWER OF
CREATIVITY
AND THE
IMAGINATION
Presented by:
Bruce Black Art.com

2. 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

3. 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.”

4. “What is now proved was only once
imagined.” -William Blake
When Alexander
Graham Bell
invented the
telephone, it must
have seemed like
magic!
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.

5. Beam me up Scotty!
IMAGINATION
“Logic will get you from
A to B. Imagination will
take you everywhere.”
-Einstein

6. IMAGINATION IS CUMULATIVE: WHAT IS FIRST IMPOSSIBLE EVOLVES TO
BECOME THE STANDARD.
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
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U.S. astronauts Neil A. Armstrong
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and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., are the
SM
first to walk on the moon.
2000
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First crew arrives to take up
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residence in the International
DO
Space Station.

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

8. Never let someone else define your
imagination no matter how well
meaning they are!
• Parents We all have experienced someone trying to
tell us how we should live or what we should
• Teachers believe in. People who are negative and do not
support your imagination are not necessarily
• Experts smarter. Perhaps they are simply followers
and want you to be one too. Lead the way
• Friends and remove negative people from your life!
• 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

9. YOU ARE WHAT YOU IMAGINE YOURSELF TO BE!
No Way! Everyone knows fire comes from
Creativity, like the sky, not from sticks. You should give up!
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)

10. 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?

11. Of course you can jump off a cliff and live! Think
hang glider, parachute, bungee-cord.
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12. 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.

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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?

16. 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

17. 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,
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
a sun dropped in the west.
I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down,
Iatell you there is nothing in the world
sun dropped in the west.
only an ocean of tomorrows,
I tell you there is nothing in the world
a sky of tomorrows.
only an ocean of tomorrows,
a sky of tomorrows.
From Carl sandburg’s poem “Prairie.”
Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967)
Caspar David Friedrich Monk by the sea 1809

18. 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!

19. 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

20. 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

21. MEMORIZE THIS AND REPEAT DAILY
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.

22. End Slide Show
• Presented by: Bruce Black Art.com