“Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.” WritingI CanHappensImaginePersonalityCarefulPopsSpeedMeticulous Author:William Landay
“Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.” MeanHappensCareTurnsFantasyImagineTalesIntensityCrank Author:Richard K. Morgan
“If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.” PeopleIfsFeelsShouldTwoHappensComedyImagineListeningFoolConversationDialogueAbsurdImagine ThatRemarksIrritated Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated) Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)
“Whenever I take a position, I like to imagine what it would be like under the worst-case scenario. In doing so, I minimize the confusion if that situation actually develops. In my view, losses are a very important part of trading. When a loss happens, I believe in embracing it.” IfsBelieveImportantHappensWould BeI BelieveLossViewsSituationCasesImagineWorstPositionI Believe InConfusionTradingScenariosWorst Case Scenario Author:Gil Blake
“When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly compelling to imagine yourself not only as someone to whom exciting things happen but as someone who is more than those around you. The problem is that then you begin to grow up and realize you're just a lowly muggle. … Is it possible that all of us, weaned on these stories, end up inevitably disappointed with mundane life as it actually exists?” EndsStoriesProblemHappensKidsGrowsRealizingGrowing UpImagineAdultsWeakExcitingThings HappenDisappointedCompellingMundaneExciting ThingsMugglesMundane Life Author:Paul Waldman
“Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth” IfsGivingBodyMightHappensImagineBirthBedCapacityLaborPregnancyEcstasyChildbirthGiving Birth Author:Christiane Northrup
“If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.” IfsWayFeelsTwoDoneWholeHappensActionNextAsksImagineMinutesWorstEasierPleaseTemptationGet AwayNext TimeWorst ThingsCompletionCompletingDuress Author:Esther Hicks
“The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.” WorldMayBookMatterHappensArtistInterestDealsEmotionImaginePaintDoing Nothing Author:Pierre Bonnard
“It's too hard to make a movie if you don't care about what happens to it, or even what the product is. I can't even imagine that. It's not worth the time and effort if you don't care about the product.” IfsI CanHardHappensCareEffortImagineProductsDon't CareImagine That Author:Bradley Cooper
“In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.” ThinkingWayLongMadeImportantBigsHappensNextWinningStrongTermLossDecisionImagineWorstSpecialEmotionalPeriodsWeakTradeProfitTemptationSomething SpecialStreaksInsidious Author:William Eckhardt
“There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind of suspension. That's where you find the layer in yourself that is duplicated in everyone. And when you get it right, if you can imagine all the hearts beating in one beat, it's like that. It's beautiful.” IfsThinkingHeartKindHappensBeautifulSecretImagineFrontsMovementStrangeBeatsCamerasLayersHeart BeatSuspensionHeart Beating Author:Juliette Binoche
“If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.” IfsDreamHappensRememberImagineImagine ThatDreams You Have Author:Morgan Freeman
“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.” YearsLongHas BeensWarHappensCultureRealizingCommunityResultsImagineGenerationsOne ThingEconomicPolicyVictoryEternalVictimIncludingDefeatDisasterRuinsRegionsAlasSerbia Author:Susan Sontag
“There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.” KnowsWayHappensWishSidesImagineExperienceAccidentsImagine ThatUnlucky Book:Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays Source: Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays
“As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.” YearsChildrenI CanUseHappensStepsImagineLegsFootballerLandmines Author:Ryan Giggs
“I don’t know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don’t live here so I don’t know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don’t have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don’t know, we’ll see what happens.” KnowsHappensKnow HowImagineParisPhenomenon Author:Diane Kruger
“I think everything happens for a reason. With my game being the way it is, if I did shoot 80 percent, I'd be a harder person to deal with. It just keeps me humble. Just imagine me in my game shooting the same percentage that Reggie Miller shoots. I wouldn't even talk to you guys because I wouldn't have to.” IfsThinkingWayPersonsReasonHappensGuyGamesDealsImagineBasketballPercentHarderHumbleThings HappenShootingPercentagesEverything Happens For A ReasonHappens For A ReasonFree Throw Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy... Who else? Donald Faison. Directed by Steven Spielberg. That would be awesome.” HappensWould BeImagineIdealsHarderMurphyJamieDenzel Author:Donald Faison
“Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less.” LittlesStatesHappensWatchesImagineHappeningsCalmSpendingManifestationMore Time Author:Esther Hicks
“You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.” PeopleIfsWantWritingPersonsCharacterHappensImagineSkinsImagine ThatGood Character Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?” ThinkingLongMomentsRealityHappensTimeAsksEasyGoalTermImagineSeeingEnlightenmentStriveAwakeningSeparationEnlightenedInvitesImagine ThatDeceivingAvoidingChasingAwakened Author:Adyashanti
“Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.” FeelsI CanHappensWalksPathImagineThings HappenOrgans Author:Taraji P. Henson