An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.