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“Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.”

Source: Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus: After Long Silence, Shadow's End, Six Moon Dance

“Avoid head trash. Don't be a garbage can for anything that does not feed your intellect, stimulate your imagination, or make you a more compassionate peaceful person. Refuse to open your mind to other people's trash. Tune out anything that promotes conflict or controversy. This can infect you with a mind virus of cynicism or defeat, and you won't even know it!”

People Knows Mind Persons Doe Imagination Conflict Defeat Refuse Intellect Peaceful Tunes Peace Of Mind Compassionate Cynicism Controversy Trash Garbage Viruses Stimulation Garbage Cans

Author:Les Brown

“Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.”

Dream Desire Force Imagination Creativity Conflict Driving Impulse Fuel Resolve Our Dreams Daydreaming Driving Force Unfulfilled Desires

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote or write in the popular press, like Saramago, Vargas Llosa, and Eco. This strikes me as one way of avoiding opinionated fiction, and allowing your imagination a broader latitude. Similarly, fiction writers from places like India and Pakistan are commonly expected to provide primers to their country's histories and present-day conflicts. But we haven't had that tradition in Anglo-America.”

“Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.”

Should Self Grows Imagination Self Esteem Conflict Concepts Shadow Function Esteem Duality Self Concept

Book:Commentaries on Living

Source: Commentaries on Living

“It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it conflicts, in some people's minds, with their sense of how we all came to be. But you know, if you are a believer in God, it's hard to imagine that God would somehow put this incontrovertible evidence in front of us about our relationship to other living organisms and expect us to disbelieve it. I mean, that doesn't make sense at all.”

“Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.”

Men Wells Shows Light Enjoy Imagination Honor Conflict Safety Troops Uniforms Sober Banner Dazzling

Book:Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century ; The Pirate

Source: Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century ; The Pirate

“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.”

Winning Imagination Conflict Exception Will Power

Author:Emile Coue