Imagination
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The
child awakens to a universe.
The mind of the child to a world of meaning.
Imagination to a world of beauty.
Emotions to a world of intimacy.
It takes a universe to make a child
both in outer form and inner spirit.
It takes a universe to educate a child.
A universe to fulfill a child.
~ Thomas Berry
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How
are we going to make our livings in a society
becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech
and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination
to recognize that for most of human history the
concept of Jobs didn’t even exist? Work, as distinguished
from Labor, was done to produce needed goods and
services, develop skills and artistry, and nurture
cooperation.
-- Grace Lee Boggs
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As
long as man was small in numbers and limited in
technology, he could realistically regard the earth
as an infinite reservoir, an infinite source of
inputs and an infinite cesspool for outputs. Today
we can no longer make this assumption. Earth has
become a space ship, not only in our imagination
but also in the hard realities of the social, biological,
and physical system in which man is enmeshed.
-- Kenneth
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We
are the miracle of force and matter making itself over
into imagination and will.
Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms.
You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted
itself alive.
We are one of the shouts.
-- Ray Bradbury
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I
don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans.
The whole case for behaving decently to animals
rests on the fact that we are the superior species.
We are the species uniquely capable of imagination,
rationality, and moral choice - and that is precisely
why we are under an obligation to recognize and
respect the rights of animals.
-- Brigid Brophy
There
is a boundary to men's passions when they act
from feelings;
but none when they are under the influence of
imagination.
-- Edmund Burke
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In
our imaginations we believe that love is apart
from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once
we are ready to accept it. When you truly find
love, you find yourself.
-- Deepak Chopra
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“Live
out of your imagination, not your history.” - Stephen
Covey
Every
great advance in science
has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
-- John Dewey
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That
which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts
will determine our lives, and our character.
~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
That
which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts
will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore,
it behooves us to be careful what we worship,
for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
There
are no days in life so memorable as those which
vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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"Forgiveness
is an act of the imagination. It dares you to imagine
a better future, one that is based on the blessed
possibility that your hurt will not be the final
word on the matter. It challenges you to give up
your destructive thoughts about the situation and
to believe in the possibility of a better future.
It builds confidence that you can survive the pain
and grow from it. "
-- Larry James |
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"This
world demands the qualities of youth: not a time
of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will,
a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage
over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over
the love of ease."
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
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It
is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception
and compassion and hope.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
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"Democracy is the most demanding of all forms
of government in terms of the energy, imagination,
and public spirit required of the individual."
-- George C.
Marshall (1880-1959)
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"Believe
in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without
a humble but reasonable confidence in your own
powers you cannot be successful or happy. Formulate
and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture
of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously.
Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to
develop the picture. Do not build obstacles in
your imagination. Do not be awestruck by other
people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you
as efficiently as you can."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
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War
comes a the end of the twentieth century as absolute
failure of imagination, scientific and political.
That a war can be represented as helping a people to
"feel good" about themselves,
their country, is a measure of that failure.
-- Adrienne Rich
Your
family and your love must be cultivated like a garden.
Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly
to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
-- Jim Rohn
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But
remember that if the struggle were to resort to
violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination.
Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually
victimize women. And a political struggle that does
not have women at the heart of it, above it, below
it, and within it is no struggle at all.
-- Arundhati Roy
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"Imagination
will often carry us to worlds that never were.
But without it we go nowhere." Carl Sagan
-- Carl Sagan
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"When
you start to develop your powers of empathy and
imagination, the whole world opens up to you."
-- Susan Sarandon
I
think I'm an actor because I have very strong
imagination and empathy. I never studied acting,
but those two qualities are exactly the qualities
that make for an activist.
-- Susan Sarandon
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You
imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine
and at last you create what you will."
-- George Bernard
Shaw
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"The
arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the
envelope of how peace can be created.
It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage
is what we all need to create a better world."
-- Wanye Shorter
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Without
leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement
of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form
of planning."
-- Gloria Steinem
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This
world is but a canvas to our imagination.
-- Henry David
Thoreau
It
is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes
the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
-- Henry David
Thoreau
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"To
finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington,
Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources
of the enlightened imagination, which can be systematically
developed by the spiritual sciences of India and
Tibet. We have not yet tamed our own demons of racism,
nationalism, sexism, and materialism. We have not
yet made peace with a land we took by force and
have only partly paid for. We are a teeming conglomeration
of people from different tribes who have yet to
embrace fully the humanness in one another. And
none of us can be really free until all of us are."
-- Robert Thurman
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"The
secret message communicated to most young people
today by the society around them is that they are
not needed, that the society will run itself quite
nicely until they - at some distant point in the
future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact
is that the society is not running itself nicely...
because the rest of us need all the energy,
brains, imagination and talent that young people
can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For
society to attempt to solve its desperate problems
without the full participation of even very young
people is imbecile."
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Artistic
creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls
in the depths of the mind.
-- Robert Toth
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You
can't depend on your eyes when your imagination
is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain
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"The
imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that
creates."
-- Oscar Wilde
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Despair
shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations
shared create collaboration, collaboration creates
community, and community inspires social change.
~
Terry Tempest
Williams
I
feel like we are at a time of great creativity
if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose
to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine
another way of being in the world.
~ Terry
Tempest Williams
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