Imagination Quote by Chris Abani Download Open image ““... it's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.”” — Chris Abani ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imagination
“It is quite interesting to discover who we really are. It might take some time, but eventually we do.” — Alexandra Kinias Copy Share Image
“I would not wish Any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We all get to discover who we really are at some point, and when we do, it can be quite unsettling.” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.” — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“Did you know we know we are all the object of another's imagination?” — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“...But living creatures are strange. They are made in such a way that they can actualize only what their minuscule minds wish for.” — Sosuke Aizen Copy Share Image
“Who we were shapes us into who we are, and who we are shapes us into who we’ll become.” — Rachel Aukes Copy Share Image
“I settle into my imagination so that I might be someone when the real world tells me I'm no one.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“We project an illusion of our ideals instead of seeing other people as they really are.” — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.” — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“He too, it seemed, had come to believe that he could somehow escape history. That it was possible, and even desirable, to live in… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can be approached… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive. — Chris Abani Copy Share
“Circuses are about entertainment and juggling and animals and all that shit. Sideshows are about freaks, about people and the limits of acceptability. We… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh?… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
