Pastoral Resources

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Imagination decides everything.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

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 it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.