Imagine that your high-school junior spends half of every day at the brick-and-mortar school up the street.
To be safe and cautious, imagine that your energy costs over the next decade will rise tenfold.
Did you imagine that your movie would basically rescue the entire film industry at least for that year?
You could even imagine that your phone might be tapped or that somebody might look at your emails.
Imagine that your PC and TV were blended into a single instrument with a big screen, a conventional remote control and a keyboard.
It's human nature to imagine that your business will evolve in predictable ways--right up to the moment when the Cheap Revolution rears up to smack you.
As a business, if your only competitive advantage rests in not collecting a tax that is legally due, I would imagine that your business is on life support.
Now imagine that your application is a video chat app that is riding the Facebook wave, leveraging their social APIs, and has been fully backed financially by just one man.
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Imagine that device in your hands trying to keep track of you as you move your head while walking.
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Imagine your smartphone knows through your wearable device that you had a poor night's sleep.
Therefore, increasing the number of patients in a study also increases the likelihood that the results will be good enough to pass muster with the FDA. Imagine, Warrell says, realizing that your study would have been good enough with only 50 more patients--and then having to start over from scratch.
Just imagine that, start thinking about your future in that way.
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Imagine for a moment that it is your job to convince me to buy Microsoft Word as my word processing program.
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And when that happens, just imagine how your business will grow.
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Imagine ads that ask to call you on your phone, or push a game or a contest to your personal computer.
You know, Gaza's only 26 miles long and four miles wide, and imagine like that's all you see your whole life.
Imagine instead an iPad that you can fold in your pocket, recharge almost never and hold with one hand without wrist strain.
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At the end of that chapter, he asks: Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination.
Imagine if your organization could foster a generative framework and that fertile soil encouraged your customers to co-create unimaginable new value.
In other words, you are less likely to achieve your goals when all you do is imagine that you already have achieved them.
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The emphasis, of course, is on performance here with nary a rotary nor fader in sight (we imagine you'd be using your other controller for that, right?).
Imagine that you have to buy a new cricket bat because your old one's broken and you happen to have an hour of free time between meetings one day.
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Imagine having a software agent that could automatically do scheduling on your behalf, surveying your calendar and fitting a session with the personal trainer into each week, followed by a massage, with enough time afterward to get dressed and hotfoot it to your next meeting.
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So what I try to get people to imagine is that that one new voter that you register in your precinct, that one neighbor that you help get to the polls on November the 6th, that could be the one that makes the difference in this election.
"By that I mean try to imagine creating a cavity inside your mouth without any air bubbles and by letting in no air through your lips or throat -- it's basically impossible at sea level because the air pressure outside your mouth pushes the air pocket closed, " he said.
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Imagine that you are recruited to participate in a study because of your gaming expertise, and the study consists of gamelike computer tasks.
Just imagine how large your cellular bill may grow to be now that your cellular device, not really just a phone any longer, has become a critical part of your daily routine.
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However, when you enter the financial market arena, it is imperative to shut it off and allow your mind the creativity to imagine illogical pricing scenarios that only a person with floppy ears and a tail could dream of.
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Imagine your favorite employee the one you spent all that time developing told you she was thinking of leaving your team for another job offer.
Imagine walking into a meeting room that recognizes who you are and what your meeting is about, pulls up your presentation for you and gets people on the phone.
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