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.
Maxwell MaltzAbout author
- Author's profession: Scientist
- Nationality: american
- Born: March 10, 1899
- Died: April 7, 1975
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