I Quotes
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“Imagine all the wondrous things your arms might embrace if they weren't wrapped so tightly around your struggles.”
Source: Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
“Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go anywhere where they treat you bad? Well, that's how it is for us to go to Mexico. You have to be on your guard, because I think the Mexicans are harder on the Mexicans, the Mexican-Americans. They don't see us as Mexican. I think part of it's a class issue and a color issue. We're more connected to their servants, so what are we doing staying at a nice hotel? There's a kind of shame.”
“Imagine an absolute vacuum in which nothing exists. Then air, water, trees, mountains, clouds, thoughts and all other forms of matter and energy appear inside it. Mind can merely imagine that vacuum. But you can feel it. Because you're that vacuum.”
“Imagine an account that has a zero opening balance and zero closing balance but has millions of transactions in between. That’s what life is all about.”
Source: Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
“Imagine an alien, Fox said, who's come here to identify the planet's dominant form of intelligence. The alien has s look, then chooses. What do you think he picks? I probably shrugged.
The zaibatsus, Fox said, the multinationals. The blood of a zaibatsu is information, not people. The structure is independent of the individual lives that comprise it. Corporation as life form.
Not the Edge lecture again, I said.”
Source: Burning Chrome
“Imagine an alternate universe in which people don’t have words for different forms of transportation—only the collective noun “vehicle.” They use that word to refer to cars, buses, bikes, spacecraft, and all other ways of getting from place A to place B. Conversations in this world are confusing. There are furious debates about whether or not vehicles are environmentally friendly, even though no one realizes that one side of the debate is talking about bikes and the other side is talking about trucks. There is a breakthrough in rocketry, but the media focuses on how vehicles have gotten faster—so people call their car dealer (oops, vehicle dealer) to ask when faster models will be available. Meanwhile, fraudsters have capitalized on the fact that consumers don’t know what to believe when it comes to vehicle technology, so scams are rampant in the vehicle sector.
Now replace the word “vehicle” with “artificial intelligence,” and we have a pretty good description of the world we live in.
Artificial intelligence, AI for short, is an umbrella term for a set of loosely related technologies. ChatGPT has little in common with, say, software that banks use to evaluate loan applicants. Both are referred to as AI, but in all the ways that matter—how they work, what they’re used for and by whom, and how they fail—they couldn’t be more different.”
Source: AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference
“Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer seduced by the uncanny and the unearthly. In Lilith's Cave, he once again reaches into a magical cornucopia of folklore and fantasy and spreads before us, in enchanting language, the marvels and shocks of dybbuks, ghosts, demons, spirits, and wizards.”
“Imagine an Englishman, a Frenchman, a Chinese and an Indonesian all looking at a cup. The Englishman says, ‘That is a cup.’ The French-man answers, ‘No it’s not. It’s a tasse.’ Then the Chinese comments, ‘You are both wrong. It’s a pei.’ Finally the Indonesian man laughs at the others and says ‘What fools you are. It’s a cawan.’ Then the Englishman get a dictionary and shows it to the others saying, ‘I can prove that it is a cup. My dictionary says so.’ ‘Then your dictionary is wrong,’ says the Frenchman, ‘because my dictionary clearly says it is a tasse.’ The Chinese scoffs; ‘My dictionary says it’s a pei and my dictionary is thousands of years older than yours so it must be right. And besides, more people speak Chinese than any other language, so it must be a pei.’ While they are squabbling and arguing with each other, a another man comes up, drinks from the cup and then says to the others, ‘Whether you call it a cup, a tasse, a pei or a cawan, the purpose of the cup is to hold water so that it can be drunk. Stop arguing and drink, stop squabbling and refresh your thirst.’ This is the Buddhist attitude to other religions.”
Source: Good Question Good Answer
“Imagine an expedition where no maps or clues are provided to you initially but you are on your own discovering and/or creating them to chart and make sense of the whole journey. That's the life in a sentence.”
Source: The Essence of Enlightenment: Comprehensive Guide to Self-inquiry and Enlightenment
“Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by the very slight variation from one language to another, and by the remarkable respects in which all languages are the same. And then he would notice we do not pay any attention to that because for the purpose of human life it is quite natural and appropriate just to take for granted everything that is common. We don't concern ourselves with that, all we worry about are differences.”
“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’ How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?”
Source: Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage
“Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you know since they will die in their sleep, they will not feel the pain of death. Now if you cry aloud to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, making those unfortunate few suffer the agony of irrevocable death, do you think you are doing them a good turn?”
“Imagine an organization where the physical plant honors the mission, celebrates the employees, shares information, holds people accountable, shapes the outside world's view and helps drive performance. That would be an organization which uses visual management.”
“Imagine and executioner who has spent all his life torturing people and chopping off heads, or a hopeless drunkard, or a madman who has spent his entire life in a dark room which he detests but imagines that he would die if he left it—imagine if they should ask themselves, 'What is life?' Obviously the only answer they could come up with is that life is the greatest of evils. The madman's answer would be obviously correct, but only with respect to himself. Suppose I am such a madman? Suppose all of us who are wealthy and learned are such madmen?”
Source: A Confession
“Imagine and keep going, never give up.”
“Imagine and see yourself at your best. Change yourself with hard work, to become the excellent person you want to be.”
“Imagine any problem you have to be a huge, locked door standing in front of you. Now see yourself taking a golden key out of your pocket. You brought the key here with you when you arrived on this planet, but you sometimes forget to use it. See yourself putting it into the keyhole, then watch the door swing open. On the key are inscribed these words, "Unconditional Love."”
“Imagine as if the sole purpose of life is for imagination. Act as if the purpose of life is to realize those imaginations.”
“Imagine as you do that the air you take in is bright and golden, as lovely and light as your eyes.”
Source: Girls of Paper and Fire
“Imagine asking someone for support and all they do is bring you more problems as if what you have is not enough.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts
“Imagine becoming at peace with yourself.”
Source: Dare to Decide: Discovering Peace, Clarity and Courage at Life's Crossroads
“Imagine becoming healthier, stronger, and smarter every day. It’s possible, if you know the right secrets.”
Source: sciVive
“Imagine being a 19yrs old raconteur, who intentionally scorns his fondness for mere paradox. Who has nothing to offer to this cruel world except the despises of his immense source of skepticism, inevitable pessimism, suspicious cynicism, existential solipsism, truculence words, intense pusillanimity and insecure will for detachment. Being that person is no joke. smh...”
“Imagine being a poor person and you find out that the Queen who literally does nothing is making 100 million dollars in a year.”
“Imagine being able to make it difficult for an ISIS commander to talk to his fighters in the field just by placing a piece of malware on his computer network.”
“Imagine being blindfolded and then taken hundreds of miles from home -- perhaps even to another country across the sea. And then suddenly having the blindfold removed and, despite not having the slightest idea where you are, racing home at top speed. Even if home is six hundred miles away. That is not normal. Just like the superpowers of comicbook heroes, the homing instinct of pigeons is something that scientists cannot explain. They have tried over the years, with theories about magnetic fields and the sun, but no one has satisfactorily managed it.
It is a strangely comfy superpower though. The pigeon is not on a mission to save the world. It just wants to go home. From the age of six weeks, pigeons can be taught to "home" to the loft from which they make their first flight because they understand that is where they will find food, water and company. Pigeons can be picky in their journey -- they do not like to fly at night or to cross water, often flying along the coast to find the shortest point at which to cross a body like the English Channel. but they are ultimately single-minded in simply wanting to get back to where they belong. Amid the horrors of wartime, this longing has a particular resonance.”
Source: Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe
“Imagine being completely naked in a room full of people who speak a different language and everyone wants to touch you. This is the life of a dog.”
“Imagine being frozen in one state forever. Wouldn't you rather die than confront such a fate? In fact, you might as well be dead. God would choose to kill himself ... to avoid the horror and boredom of permanent stasis.”
Source: The Book of Thought: Mind Matters
“Imagine being given the opportunity to take time out of your life, for five whole years. Free of social obligations, free of work commitments. Think how well you would get to know yourself, all that time to consider your past and the choices you had made, to focus on your personal development, to know yourself through and through, to work out your goals in life, your true ambitions.
None of this happened, not to me. Perhaps for someone else it would have been different. Any insight I have gained has been the result of later reflection. Solitude did not breed introspection, quite the reverse. My days were spent outside, immersed in nature, watching.”
Source: Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills
“Imagine being just strong enough to remember what life was like, feeling things, your heartbeat, the world around you. And imagine you couldn’t have it anymore, couldn’t even properly remember it, but there was just enough that some deep part of you knew what you were missing. Wouldn’t you do anything to get it back, if it was right there for the taking? Wouldn’t you be willing to kill for it?”
Source: Storm of Masks
“Imagine being part of a people who thought life was worth less than the convenience of a moment.”
Source: Initiate
“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly
“Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.”
“Imagine being someone’s unanswered prayers! And then eventually die in peace knowing that in your heart.”
“imagine being someplace you know
so well but are lost and don’t have any idea
how to get out”
“Imagine being susceptible to blackmail, and having such a large ego that you would betray your own country to “protect your image,” only to have your legacy end up being war, famine, and disease.”
“Imagine being taller, fat, handsome or smarter than God; when it is said that he took human form.”
“Imagine being the 'party of law and order' and having a convicted felon at the top of your ticket.”
Source: Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free
“Imagine being the ‘party of law and order’ and having a convicted felon at the top of your ticket. - Unions, Equality, and Kamala: Why This Election Matters to Me (Medium Story)”
“Imagine blocking, ignoring or hurting the only person God sent to heal you and help you.”
“Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gun play.”
“Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.”
Source: Lullaby
“Imagine bringing Canada into a trillion-and-a-half of deficit. That's insane.”
“Imagine building a proper city with Lego. That’s exactly how ridiculous fiction writing with AI will be.”
“Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!”
“Imagine cities that resemble forests, technologies that heal rather than harm, and societies rooted in balance and cooperation.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Imagine connecting with the human spirit in each person in any situation at any time. Imagine interacting with others in a way that allows everyone's need to be equally valued. Imagine creating organizations and life-serving systems responsive to our needs and the needs of our environment.”
“Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.”
“Imagine dark. Imagine it's quality. This part is easy. Now try to imagine white in a way that the darkness forms a figure or a word you would like to remember.”
“Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.”