imagine

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
62b4f04	Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.	library writing bible science bitter childish-beliefs guides invade uneducated unimaginative unthinking guide childish leader leaders imagine ignore home resentment ignorance shame thought the-bible school	Isaac Asimov
f3468dd	"But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. So you sit down at, say, nine every morning, or ten every night. You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on the computer and bring up the right file, and then you stare at it for an hour or so. You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. You look at the ceiling, and over at the clock, yawn, and stare at the paper again. Then, with your fingers poised on the keyboard, you squint at an image that is forming in your mind -- a scene, a locale, a character, whatever -- and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear what that landscape or character has to say above the other voices in your mind."	writer writing file how-to-write imagine focus quiet	Anne Lamott
b6dbab0	Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.	money old imagine know young sarcasm	Oscar Wilde
2fc670a	I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.	writer imagining imagine natural	Joan Didion
a5cb4d1	It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.	messages survive imagine survival	Joan Didion
5d58bfb	*A KEY WORD* Imagined	imagine	Markus Zusak
cb9058b	The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.	reality imagination the-wind-up-bird-chronicle haruki-murakami murakami flee japanese flight japan imagine	Haruki Murakami
8e4ecc6	"Imagine for a moment that you are the proud owner of a large house which you have spent years of your life painting and decorating and filling with everything you love. It's your home. It's something you've made your own, something for you to be remembered by, something that, perhaps years later, your children and grandchildren can visit and get a view of your life in. It's part of your creativity, your hard work... it's your property. Now suppose you decide to go camping for a couple of weeks. You lock your door and assume that nobody is going to break in... but they do, and when you return home, to your horror you find that not only do these trespassers break in, but they also have quite uniquely imaginative ways of disrespecting, vandalizing and corrupting everything within your property. They light fires on your lawn, your topiary hedges are in heaps of black ashes. There's some blatantly obscene graffiti splattered across your front door, offensive images and rude words splashed on the walls and windows. Your television has been tipped over. Your photographs of family and friends have had the heads cut out of them. There's mold growing in the refrigerator, bottles of booze tipped over on the table, and cigarette smoke embedded into the carpeting. Your beloved houseplants are dead, your furniture has been stripped down and ruined. Basically, the thing you've spent years working for and creating within your lifetime has been tampered with to the point where it is just a grim joke.	metaphor books funny fanfiction pervy copyright sherlock vandalism imagine house respect ghost geek grave	Rebecca McNutt
8d52355	When people don't know what's going on, it's human nature for them to imagine a version that's ten times worse than the truth!	leadership truth imagine human-nature	Kenneth H. Blanchard
d24a683	I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.	universe bigger bladder pee empty imagine stranger meet	John Scalzi
af204e5	"And suddenly it came to him. That Strawberry Fields garden he'd come from, and the Freedom Tower he'd been thinking of: taken together, didn't they contain the two words that said it all about this city, the two words that really mattered? It seemed to him that they did. Two words: the one an invitation, the other an ideal, an adventure, a necessity. "Imagine" said the garden. "Freedom" said the tower. Imagine freedom. That was the spirit, the message of this city he loved. You really didn't need anything more. Dream it and do it. But first you must dream it."	freedom imagination inspirational imagine new-york-city	Edward Rutherfurd
fb90b81	We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.	heart imagine head fitz smile fool longing	Robin Hobb
e66c37d	Imagine. Freedom. Always.	freedom always-and-forever forever imagine	Edward Rutherfurd

62b4f04

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

library writing bible science bitter childish-beliefs guides invade uneducated unimaginative unthinking guide childish leader leaders imagine ignore home resentment ignorance shame thought the-bible school

Isaac Asimov

f3468dd

"But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. So you sit down at, say, nine every morning, or ten every night. You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on the computer and bring up the right file, and then you stare at it for an hour or so. You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. You look at the ceiling, and over at the clock, yawn, and stare at the paper again. Then, with your fingers poised on the keyboard, you squint at an image that is forming in your mind -- a scene, a locale, a character, whatever -- and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear what that landscape or character has to say above the other voices in your mind."

writer writing file how-to-write imagine focus quiet

Anne Lamott

b6dbab0

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

money old imagine know young sarcasm

Oscar Wilde

2fc670a

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

writer imagining imagine natural

Joan Didion

a5cb4d1

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

messages survive imagine survival

Joan Didion

5d58bfb

***A KEY WORD*** Imagined

imagine

Markus Zusak

cb9058b

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

reality imagination the-wind-up-bird-chronicle haruki-murakami murakami flee japanese flight japan imagine

Haruki Murakami

8e4ecc6

"Imagine for a moment that you are the proud owner of a large house which you have spent years of your life painting and decorating and filling with everything you love. It's your home. It's something you've made your own, something for you to be remembered by, something that, perhaps years later, your children and grandchildren can visit and get a view of your life in. It's part of your creativity, your hard work... it's your property. Now suppose you decide to go camping for a couple of weeks. You lock your door and assume that nobody is going to break in... but they do, and when you return home, to your horror you find that not only do these trespassers break in, but they also have quite uniquely imaginative ways of disrespecting, vandalizing and corrupting everything within your property. They light fires on your lawn, your topiary hedges are in heaps of black ashes. There's some blatantly obscene graffiti splattered across your front door, offensive images and rude words splashed on the walls and windows. Your television has been tipped over. Your photographs of family and friends have had the heads cut out of them. There's mold growing in the refrigerator, bottles of booze tipped over on the table, and cigarette smoke embedded into the carpeting. Your beloved houseplants are dead, your furniture has been stripped down and ruined. Basically, the thing you've spent years working for and creating within your lifetime has been tampered with to the point where it is just a grim joke.

metaphor books funny fanfiction pervy copyright sherlock vandalism imagine house respect ghost geek grave

Rebecca McNutt

8d52355

When people don't know what's going on, it's human nature for them to imagine a version that's ten times worse than the truth!

leadership truth imagine human-nature

Kenneth H. Blanchard

d24a683

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

universe bigger bladder pee empty imagine stranger meet

John Scalzi

af204e5

"And suddenly it came to him. That Strawberry Fields garden he'd come from, and the Freedom Tower he'd been thinking of: taken together, didn't they contain the two words that said it all about this city, the two words that really mattered? It seemed to him that they did. Two words: the one an invitation, the other an ideal, an adventure, a necessity. "Imagine" said the garden. "Freedom" said the tower. Imagine freedom. That was the spirit, the message of this city he loved. You really didn't need anything more. Dream it and do it. But first you must dream it."

freedom imagination inspirational imagine new-york-city

Edward Rutherfurd

fb90b81

We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.

heart imagine head fitz smile fool longing

Robin Hobb

e66c37d

Imagine. Freedom. Always.

freedom always-and-forever forever imagine

Edward Rutherfurd