Imaginary Quotes - Page 17

• For a lot of geeks, gaming is all about stripping who you are completely and entering this imaginary space, this world that's made for you, where winning and losing have nothing to do with real life.

  Arthur Chu

  Real, Winning, Space

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. If all you can see is your shadow, you're blocking your own light. If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

  Don Herold

  Block, Light, Hands

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• Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it's a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don't know what will happen until you try. You may start a business, and it could take off in ways no one could predict. Or it could be a complete failure. You could ask for a date and end up with the partner of your dreams. Or you could be rejected cold. It's great to visualize what you want, but you never really know what's going to happen until you act.

  Steve Pavlina

  Dream, Trying, Way

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• PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Views, Editors, Feet

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.180, University of Georgia Press

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• Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

  Francois Fenelon

  Cures, Pursuit

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• Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.

  Karl Marx

  Memories, Rude, Understanding

  Karl Marx (2008). “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.91, Wildside Press LLC

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• Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Thinking, Numbers, Elements

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• Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.

  David Samuels

  Reading, People, Silence

  David Samuels (2008). “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”

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• Do not be content with an imaginary god.

  Allen Grossman

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• Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.

  Arianna Huffington

  Real, Use, Today

  Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.133, Harmony

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• In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.

  Thomas Merton

  Humility, Heart, Thinking

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• Maybe God is an asshole...of course not, he's not an asshole, he's imaginary.

  Louis C. K.

  Courses

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• It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  People, Grumbling, Comfort

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• Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

  Fanny Kemble

  Oneness, Heaven, Division

  Fanny Kemble (1882). “Records of Later Life”

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• The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to work. Otherwise, we might have just gone on all kinds of creative detours, some of which might have been interesting. But better we confine ourselves to something.

  David Byrne

  Giving, Interesting, Creative

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• How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.

  Penn Jillette

  Mean, Imaginary Friend

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.

  Gregg Braden

  Real, Distinction

  Gregg Braden (2010). “The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I’ve learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice.

  Gale Harold

  Giving, Advice, World

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• One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?

  Stephen Hawking

  Philosophy, Real, Believe

  "The Universe in a Nutshell". Book by Stephen Hawking, 2001.

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• The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

  Claire Forlani

  Fun, World, Having Fun

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• Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Giving, Unhappy, Bounds

  H. W.L. Poonja (2007). “Wake Up and Roar”, p.35, Sounds True

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• Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

  Georges Bataille

  God, Animal, Literature

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Guilty”

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• First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.

  Walpola Rahula

  Optimistic, Buddhism, Views

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• I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

  Teju Cole

  Real, Monsters, Adore

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.16, Random House

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• Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

  David Antin

  Real, Ideas, Made

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