Quotes by Imagination Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination. Martha C. Nussbaum leaderimaginationhumanity I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way. Martha C. Nussbaum imaginationmovingthinking It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. Martha Gellhorn bitternessimaginationwould-be I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members of the whole world of human beings, we also needed to connect our imaginations to a smaller unit. The smaller unit was something we knew we could live or die for, as Cicero died for the Roman republic. Martha C. Nussbaum fansimaginationideas I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. Martha Gellhorn innovationcreativityimagination War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. Martha Gellhorn imaginationwarpeople the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist. Martha Gellhorn alarmistsenglandimagination Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future Martha Beck painimaginationjoy Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling. Marquis de Sade imaginationfeelingsway Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? Marquis de Sade arisepleasureimagination Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. Marquis de Sade imaginationliteraturefiction It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent. Martial intuitionimaginationfeelings Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved. Martin Filler natural-elementsavant-gardeimagination Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. Mark Twain imaginationlifereality Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them! Mahatma Gandhi villageone-dayimagination Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle. Martin Farquhar Tupper eaglesimaginationwings Without design thinking, the only sane response to a problem is to make a smaller, "safer" move. Smaller moves don't get you very far. They key is to let out the leash on imagination, but not take it off the leash. Imagination is the only path to innovation. It's a good example of something that humans do better than machines. Marty Neumeier imaginationmovingthinking Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders. Mark Twain imaginationearthwonder Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that each somewhat idealize the other. Much is lost when life has lost its atmosphere, and is reduced to naked fact. Mary Abigail Dodge atmosphereimaginationmen Sometimes even the imagination lets one down. Mary Balogh imaginationsometimes«99100101102103104105106107108109»
