Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21
Imagination Without Dreaming
the Secret of Material Success
If You Want to Succeed in the World, {
YOUR IMAGINATION

"MsroOni Is Imagination outb being
Thus Garrett P serviss gave explanation of material
achievement and material big lines.
WITHOUT imagination may prosper relatively He
may live comfortably and die contented.
But at best such will only follow in beaten paths He
will only do what others have done before him.
He will not receive any of the great rewards which
ty offers to those whose IMAGINATION opens for the
of all new fields of thought of successful material effort
material achievement there are two administrative
force (Which may be subdivded into indefinite
oassihcations) and the great creative power imagination
Imagination enabled MarOOni to the possibility
ing electric messages without wires.
Had he been dreamer had he allowed imagination to
wander indefinitely into notions of talking other planets
the power of his imagination might have been in vain.
His imagination enabled him SEE possibility and the
lack of the dreamers quality enabled him REALIZE it,
took Columbus with imagination and courage but none
Of the dreamer about him. sail around the to America
and prove practically what is known every child
Wherever you see great material success on new line YOU
see imagination without dreaming 1t took real power magi
nation in Rockefeller conceive construction
of the Standard Oil monopoly
took the financial imagination of Morgan the
idea of taking $5oO0O000O worth of steel mills welding
them into the Steel TrusnO dreamer this
thing.
Many dreamer foreseen the steam engine the steam
boat and other great inventions without result At the right
moment of imagination like came along and did
the actual work that the dreamer could not do.
you want to succeed in the world cultivate your mag
nation And you want your children to succeed encourage
them IN The development OF their imagination,
But let imagnngs and the imagnngs your children
stop this side of dreamland
Your brain activity divided the conscious and sub
conscious departments The your mentality
puts you into communication with the world enables you to
meet and to cope with conditions and individuals
you to succeed materially the conscious mind must
control direct and limit the activities of the subconscious mind
with which the imagination does its work
your suboonscous BRAIN the departments abstract
thought imagination and dreaming be allowed run away with
the practical side you may be very great man the ardistant
future but may be that you will succeed now
THE EARTH S GREATEST MEN ARE ORGANIZERS.
The world recognizes these dreamers The successful
admits limitations He accepts as they are He
uses his imagination only long carry him individual
and comfort
But the very greatest spirits among are the spirits of
dreamers
These are the who refuse to acknowledge limitations
the limitations of absolute truth and of absolute possibility
When nineenths of human beings slaves these dream
refused to recognize slavery and they died their belief
Every man who led great moral reform ahead of was
dreamer And these dreamers whose lives scattered
through history each tragedy and each milestone the path
of civilization did for civilization what fontiersman does for
country