“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant: Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
The alchemist uses this expression at p. 23, but it is one that does not originate with Coelho, though his work has popularized it.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant: Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
“One of the biggest follies in life is giving up your favorite attraction.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Una delle più grandi follie nella vita è rinunciare alla tua attrazione preferita.
Source: prevale.net
“A patent is a legal analog of sticky fly paper: it attracts some of the lowest forms of life.”
David L. Webster (1888–1976) American Physicist
in his autobiography, as quoted by [Peter Louis Galison, Bruce William Hevly, Big science: the growth of large-scale research, Stanford University Press, 1992, 0804718792, 55]
John Gall (1925–2014) American physician
Source: General systemantics, an essay on how systems work, and especially how they fail..., 1975, p. 66
Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & academic
Source: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism, § 1 : The Method <!-- p. 116 -->
Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism p. 132 -->
Context: In real life the child is in the presence, not of isolated acts, but of personalities that attract or repel him as a global whole. He grasps people's intentions by direct intuition and cannot therefore abstract from them. He allows, more or less justly, for aggravating and attenuating circumstances. This is why the stories told by the children themselves often give rise to different evaluations from those suggested by the experimenter's stories.