Quotes by Imagination Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition. Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented. Azar Nafisi shoes fate imagination That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas. Azar Nafisi restless imagination littles Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable. Azar Nafisi imagination expectations home You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. Azar Nafisi imagination order needs Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination. Azar Nafisi soul imagination evil We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and feelings. To me it seemed as if we had not really existed, or only half existed, because we could not imaginatively realize ourselves and communicate to the world, because we had used works of imagination to serve as handmaidens to some political ploy. Azar Nafisi political imagination feelings I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination. Azar Nafisi bills imagination rights This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination. Azim Daudpota military imagination people Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness. Baltasar Gracian harness whole imagination Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together. Barack Obama empathy imagination dream There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people's imaginations. And in death, they become even larger. Now, I have to admit that it's also fed by a 24/7 media that is insatiable. Barack Obama media imagination people Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison pitfalls imagination kindness Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times. Barbara Hambly driven progress imagination Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination. Barbara Januszkiewicz visuals imagination art Imagination needs to be fed. Barbara Januszkiewicz feds imagination needs You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm. Barbara Kingsolver imagination waiting book What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement. Barbara Tuchman imagination exercise art The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists only in imagination; and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty. Barry Long imagination time thinking To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe. Barry Lopez imagination giving order The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you Barry Lopez influence powerful imagination «1011121314151617181920»
