Quotes of: Imagining Keyword

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Christopher Morcom

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Sean O'Faolain

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

Siri Hustvedt

Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.

Zubin Mehta

Imagine Himalayas without glaciers. Imagine 3 nuclear powers without water.

Vinita Kinra

Without imagination, we merely see or hear, and even if we see or hear that the objects of the senses are beautiful, we cannot feel that they are so. The difference is this: in feeling the beauty of objects, we enjoy not only the common, shared pleas...

Imagination and Time

I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty both of body & mind to exercise the Divine Arts of Imagination Imagination the real & eternal World of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow & in which we shall liv...

Jerusalem

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

Ponkapog Papers, a Sea Turn, and Other Matters

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people's actual well-being, that dismisses imagina...

The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken with remorse when they saw her. Only a novelist could ever imagine such nonsense. (In part, it was because of her pe...

A Widow for One Year

I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at...

Drew Gilpin Faust

Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal was a fantasy. Things change because we imagine a different world, a world that is not. And I think that im...

Brandon Sanderson

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Daniel Bell

Imagination is a powerful magnet. The power of imagination; attraction of desires.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

The Valley of Fear

All possibilities were once only imagined, but so are all limitations. Choose to imagine the former.

LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier

It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.

Kafka on the Shore

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

Lynne Truss

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

Dave Attell

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Emile Coue