Quotes by Imagination A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination. Ray Bradbury despairrealimagination Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use…time spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for free space — for wilderness and public space — must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Rebecca Solnit fightingspaceimagination Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future. Ray Bradbury imagineboringimagination They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech. Rebecca Solnit natureimaginationanimal For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back. Rebecca Solnit imaginationselfadventure To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere. Rebecca Solnit imaginationwritingmight Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. Rebecca Solnit qualityimaginationcities The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing. Ralph Waldo Emerson criticismimaginationbeautiful It turns out that we're actually capable of something other than neoliberalism and actually we're really capable of enjoying ourselves more than we do under neoliberalism. It feels that if neoliberalism is first about privatizing desire and imagination before the economy, then we're in this process of publicizing it again. Rebecca Solnit neoliberalismimaginationdesire As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream. Rebecca Solnit unexpectedimaginationdream A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there. Rebecca Solnit empathyimaginationart A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. Rebecca Solnit spursimaginationcities [The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others. Rebecca West qualityimaginationworld Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. Ray Bradbury importantimaginationcivilization Life is about trying things to see if they work. Ray Bradbury creativitycreativeimagination That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character. Ralph Waldo Emerson coachingimaginationcharacter I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's also in the mindfulness of every part of my life, from a meal that I prepare for family and friends to putting my imagination to work in a garden. Regina Taylor gardenimaginationwriting At bottom each “exact” science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination. Reginald Aldworth Daly judgementtoolsimagination We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Ray Bradbury miracleimaginationmatter Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears, imagination disappears, past and future disappear, or take desire out and effort disappears and time disappears and ego disappears. Just take one thing out of the gestalt and the whole gestalt simply disappears; it cannot exist without certain things. Those are the very essentials of it - effort is one of the essentials. Hence all the great Masters of the world have taught about grace. Rajneesh effortimaginationpast«122123124125126127128129130131132»
