Imagining Quotes

308 quotes by 263 authors

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's… — Richard Masur
We have an obligationÂ to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society… — Neil Gaiman
Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same… — Benjamin Wiker
Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it… — Michael J. Fox
When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else. — Haley Joel Osment
We donâ€™t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object- we donâ€™t think about the relations that that object embodies-… — Angela Davis
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination. — John Irving
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey… — Samuel Johnson
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing. — Jules Verne
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we… — David Foreman
Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you… — Robert L. Rosen
In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on… — Elissa Schappell
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. — Barbara Sher
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency… — Jean Baudrillard
Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not knowâ€”that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating… — Daniel Gilbert
Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want… — Pauline Kael
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. — Zoltan Kodaly
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.… — Walter Lippmann
Mentally imagine you are buying the business or applying for the job that will earn your fortune. Review each step you'd take, the obstacles you… — Tyler Gregory Hicks

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