“We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.” SeemsPresidentImaginationAbilityWifeImagineHuman NatureAppearanceSeatsThronesToiletsLoftyStoopsArtisansGreat PresidentsToilet Seat Book:Complete Essays Source: Complete Essays
“...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.” PeopleKnowsBelieveLittlesRealCharacterStoriesWisdomDreamRealityRunningBitsCommunitySpaceHistoryImagineGenerationsHuman NatureLittle BitIllusionTheaterIndividualityVersionsIdeologyGeographyFunny ThingsMaking Up Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.” PeopleStatesRealityWould BeDiesPoliticsLeadershipWorkWalksForgetUnitedWatchesUnited StatesComedyImagineHuman NaturePolicyRiversAskingIndividualityIdeologyBoredVotingSenateAmendmentsDiplomacyChamberForget ItCivilityBangingWatch MeBored To Death Author:Chris Christie
“It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.” WritingHumansMayCountryPastImagineHuman NatureEmpathyShoesPassports Author:Geraldine Brooks
“Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an audience right now, and yet to also hold an audience hundreds or thousands of years into the future in circumstances you just cannot imagine. You've got to go very deep into human nature to do that.” ArtAttentionAudienceImagineHuman NatureCircumstancesArt IsVery Deep Author:Brian Boyd
“When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story.” ThinkingWantWritingHumansStoriesFictionImagineHuman NatureNon Fiction Author:Geraldine Brooks
“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.” TryingSleepInspiringGoneImagineHuman NatureWake UpGoing To SleepWake Up Now Author:Alan Watts
“The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or reason, imagine that we can free ourselves from the limitations of human nature and perfect the human species.” HumansDoeReasonPerfectImagineHuman NatureDangerSpeciesAtheistBelieverLimitationImagine ThatGuiseHuman SpeciesScience Religion Author:Chris Hedges