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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. 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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“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
- Trevor Noah
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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
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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
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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