The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.
The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
We need to start imagining the future or it will get imagined for us, and the ways that it has been imagined thus far don't seem very attractive.
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
