Best capable & imagination Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.”

Individual Social Imagination Accepting Creativity Creative Capable Capacity Pressure Caught Intuition Assumption Questioning Peer Pressure Social Pressure False Assumptions

Author:John W. Gardner

“Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.”

Source: The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 315-635

“Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.”

Made Imagination Support Reader Genius Succeed Capable Perfection Weak Noble Fancy Qualified Superstitious Extravagance

Book:Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory

Source: Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory

“The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.”

Soul Sometimes Suffering Imagination Walks Pay Poet Fine Essentials Capable Productions Dust Height Ecstasy Sensibility Temperament Transport Morbid

Author:Myrtle Reed

“Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.”

Source: The Problems of Philosophy

“Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, the archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo.”

Mind Humans Imagination Beauty Expression Capable Selfish Arrogant Apollo Marble Serpent Owl Human Imagination Acropolis

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.”

Giving Form Understanding Imagination Capable Illness Characteristics Heredity

Author:Alfred Binet

“Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.”

Source: Readings in St. John's Gospel ...

“I'm astonished how little fright I have of my own imagination. It really does baffle me that I don't get more scared because I'm capable of thinking up things that are so awful. On any given day I can imagine the worst.”

Thinking Littles Doe I Can Given Imagination My Own Imagine Worst Capable Scared Awful Fright

Author:Robert Reed

“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”

“I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of our time and history, the tremendous loss and tragedy as well as greatness and nobility, an imagination capable of recognizing that where there is light there is shadow, that out of hubris and fall can come moral regeneration, out of suffering and death, resurrection and rebirth.”

“It turns out that we're actually capable of something other than neoliberalism and actually we're really capable of enjoying ourselves more than we do under neoliberalism. It feels that if neoliberalism is first about privatizing desire and imagination before the economy, then we're in this process of publicizing it again.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Desire Turns Process Enjoy Imagination Economy Capable Neoliberalism

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.”

Mind Looks Persons Imagination Relationship Capable Significant Flaws Significant Change

Book:God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

Source: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

“the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future”

Men Inspirational Mind Wells Past Imagination Destiny Future Capable Heart Of Darkness

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“All great fighting is the same, Eragon, even as all great warriors are the same. Past a certain point, it does not matter whether you wield a sword, a claw, a tooth or a tail. It is true, you must be capable with your weapon, but anyone with the time, and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness, and it is those qualities that the best warriors share, even if, on the surface, they appear completely different.”

“Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of ducks. And always it assuaged me from the dry bowl of the very far past. What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be, darling citizen. So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.”

World Want Years Past Life Is Imagination Morning Doubt Feet Citizens Capable Rivers Longing Lips Dry No Doubt Ducks Every Morning Bowls Live Your Life Darling Drank Harbors Oaks Ponds

Book:Red Bird: Poems

Source: Red Bird: Poems

“The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination, which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God, they leave it cold and languishing.”

Way Mind Heart Heaven Imagination Prayer Study Objects Cold Exercise Capable Fruit Wander Settling Reasoning Filling Answers To Prayer

Book:The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion

Source: The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion

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