W Quotes
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“Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.”
“Without imagination, we merely see or hear, and even if we see or hear that the objects of the senses are beautiful, we cannot feel that they are so. The difference is this: in feeling the beauty of objects, we enjoy not only the common, shared pleasures of the senses, but also the private pleasures of the imagination, peculiar to ourselves, and such that we have to struggle to articulate them.”
Source: Imagination and Time
“Without imagination we should be lost; for only with its help can we interpret our experience, turn it into experience of an outer world, and thus make use of it in understanding what and where we are, and what we need to do.”
Source: Imagination and Time
“Without imagination---without creativity---without courage---the best prairie restorations don't happen. The rewards don't always come in our lifetime... . We work, knowing we leave a legacy for those who will come after us. We think of them as we drip with sweat, freeze, or pull weeds...plant seeds.”
Source: Tallgrass Conversations: In Search of the Prairie Spirit
“Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.”
Source: Maeterlinck and I
“Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.”
“Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceive…I want education to empower people to see possibility.”
“Without immediate action, an inspiration is useless emotion.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.”
Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
“Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.”
“Without impending on your own personal choice, there are going to be those that wear the hat of religion and those that wear the hat of science. I still don't really understand why they can't wear both hats, because personally, I think that they go beautifully together.”
“Without imperfection, you or I would not exist.”
“Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.”
“Without improving our mind there is no way to solve our human problems.”
“Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.”
“Without in any way minimizing the role of violence in our lives, I am looking, simultaneously, at how a heightened rhetoric of threat that confuses doing nothing, normative conflict, and resistance with actual abuse, has produced a wide practice of over-
stating harm.”
Source: Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
“Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.”
“Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.”
“Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. Thats more detrimental.”
“Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.”
Source: The Life & Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself
“Without information on the go; your success in any chosen field is left to chance.”
“Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.”
“Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. One in that case not merely conducts inquiry and learning without the use of the best instruments, but fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge.”
“Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.”
“Without injustices,
the name of justice
would mean what?”
Source: Fragments
“Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”
“Without inner-peace and contentment, success will ultimately destroy you.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace.”
“Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.”
Source: Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey
“Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.”
“Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.”
“Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.”
“Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.”
Source: Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance
“Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.”
Source: People and Performance
“Without institutional obligations, the upkeep of friendships require must be very deliberate...
However, the weakness of friendship is also the source of its immeasurable strength. Why do true friendships make us happier than spouses or children? Because they're always a deliberate choice, never an obligation...
Someone does not cease to be your parent, boss, or spouse because you stop liking them. Friendship is more real because either person can walk away at any time. Its fragility proves its purity.”
Source: Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
“Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school.”
“Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.”
“Without integrity, technology is noise — with it, it becomes light.”
Source: KhojX: News Age
“Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth”
“Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager so lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Without intent all painting is meaningless.”
“Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent.”
“Without intermediate artists, music is what "American Idol" decides is great or made by the very poor, because Sharon Osbourne's made everything free. No, we have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.”
“Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.”
“Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.”
“Without intervention, the underachiever is trapped in the curse of subpar performance, unable to break free and unleash their full potential.”
“Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.”
“Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities.”
“Without intuitive and instinctual knowledge, animals and human beings could not endure. All animals possess the basic instinct for survival, and their instinctual behavior exhibits many traits of advance planning. All animals prepare for future contingencies such as changing seasons and the birth of their young. They also know when they are ill and make advance arrangements for their demise. Human survival frequently calls for us to be true to our animal instincts. Organized impulses rule all animals including human beings because they ensure self-preservation and continuation of the species.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Without invention nothing is well-spaced.”