Imagination Quotes - Page 36

• Politics should seize the imagination.

  George Packer

  Should

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Reason, Capture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are a lot of ways to talk about the life of a photograph. You can talk about the afterlife of a photograph, and in the end I talk about that, with the Richard Prince picture. But mainly, what I dedicated the book to being about was how photographs begin their life, and where they begin it. And they begin it with the photographer's imagination and instinct and experience.

  Sam Abell

  Book, Afterlife, Way

  Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

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• In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Able, Language

  Source: www.oxfordjournals.org

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• Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Order, Flight, Speak

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the product of a collective imagination paralyzed by the racism of a white supremacist culture they can only view them as a dangerous nightmare.

  Henry Giroux

  Men, Views, White

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Degrees, Modern, Endure

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• I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.

  Matthew Healy

  Mean, Story Writers, Orbit

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

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• We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

  Erich Fromm

  Technique, Social, Imaginative

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I have known know many therapists who come out of Pacifica Graduate Institute and love being both artists and therapists at the same time, like Maureen Murdock. They are photographers and dancers and other kinds of things and therapists at the same time. I think it really makes them a much more interesting therapist because they're so engaged with the imagination and the creativity and the depths of who they are.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Creativity, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective.

  Edward Snowden

  Wall, Believe, Able

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American literature couldn't possibly be something they could be interested in or relate to. They have limited imaginations, which is sad.

  Roxane Gay

  Thinking, People, African American

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.

  Alice Mattison

  Writing, Day To Day

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It really was not that difficult a process, because I was playing [Data from Star Trek] something that doesn't exist. So it was really based on... Imagination was the key element in that, and whatever I could think of, I could do, because there was no precedent for it. It wasn't like someone was going to say, "Well, an android would never do that." They didn't know!

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So Occam's razor - Occam says you should choose the explanation that is most simple and straightforward - leads me more to believe in God than in the multiverse, which seems quite a stretch of the imagination.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Simple, Razors

  Source: inters.org

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• I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

  Sergio Leone

  Cinema, Always Believe

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically present. To me, this seems a denial of the imagination, and the imagination is very important to me.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Focus, Important

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Made, Manifest, Seeds

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Mean, Buddhism, Dwelling

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Rivers, People

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America. What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good.

  Katherine Paterson

  Math, Years, America

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I am really the victim of other people's imagination.

  John Hurt

  People, Victim

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• I hope that when children read my stories that they evoke images for children. I four stories can help children use their own imaginations and lead them to act the stories out or to embark on related research, they will learn more and learn to love reading more.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Reading, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives in general. Their imaginations will be stimulated. I thank heavens for the father that gave me that to begin with.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Father, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity comes from the imagination and a response to the environment, as you know. So they're both very similar in that way because it's about one's inner life interacting with the environment and what comes from that.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Art, Creativity, Psychology

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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