Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

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.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

The greatest secret to living a happy, fulfilled life is the realization that everything is created in our minds before it manifests itself in the outer world. We must believe it before we can see it.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

Your thoughts create your reality.

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.

Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.

A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams.

If you can see it, and believe it, it is a LOT easier to achieve it

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

Conceive + Believe = Achieve.

You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don't say "I'm going to do such and such" - it already has happened. Now, is consciousness real? It exists and it is very powerful. The idea is to have this mesh between your consciousness - your visualization - and the so-called material world.

Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire.

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.