The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I want to be on the screen, I want to play dress up every day, I want be different people, I want… — Skyler Samuels Copy Share Image
Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about… — Jay S. Walker Copy Share Image
Give me a kiss to build a dream on And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss Sweetheart, I ask no more… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Without imagination and without love, life can be pretty bleak. I think having both will get you through the most dire of… — Tiya Sircar Copy Share Image
Nobody else in the world would look at writing as craftsmanship - it's totally this Protestant hardworking ethic. You go into this… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization,… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
“Velvet carpet," sighed Anne luxuriously, "and silk curtains! I've dreamed of such things, Diana. But do you know I don't believe I… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
“Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
“The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits,… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“ITALIANO Non ho mai ritenuto reale la mia fantasia, ma ritengo molto fantasiosa la mia realtà. ENGLISH I've never felt my fantasy… — Gianluca Frangella Copy Share Image
It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Could be I've finally gone crazy, but men crazier than me have done greater things than I've ever dreamed, so we'll see… — Drew Bankston Copy Share Image
The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
“Perception is a fantasy that coincides with reality. —Christ Firth, from Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World” — Alberto Cairo Copy Share Image
It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
![“It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination…” quote by Andy Hertzfeld](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/001/andy-hertzfeld-24074_art_it-s-programming-the-only-job-i-can-thin_250407.jpg)
