“Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.” Has BeensI CanImportantDoneCharacterAbleImagineImportant ThingsUglyShowcaseUgly Betty Author:Ana Ortiz
“Actually I can't imagine Nato troops on the ground and I think it's also important to send that very clear message to the UN and other organisations right now so that appropriate plans can be in place in due time and the Gaddafi regime can collapse soon.” ThinkingI CanImportantClearImaginePlansRight NowMessagesDuesAppropriateRegimesCollapseTroopsOrganisationNatoDue TimeGaddafi Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen
“Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.” ChildrenImportantRealRealitySchoolImaginationClearImagineAirSocietyExerciseDenyContraryConcreteDetachedFreedom And Happiness Author:Paulo Freire
“Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.” ImportantPayAttentionImaginePromiseAppreciateCuriosityPay Attention Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“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
“The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.” PeopleIfsWritingImportantFactsSongImagineStyleSingingCracksTwistsShoutingBradGangnam Style Author:PSY
“I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.” I CanImportantEnergyWaterAliveImagineAirSoilBiodiversity Author:David Suzuki
“It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.” IfsWayImportantBodyFallProcessPracticeImagineAchieveDyingWindowSkinsDistanceTrainYour BodyOne WayWheelsEmptinessKnivesDetachmentNumbnessPiercingsTorsoGirl InterruptedImagining Yourself Author:Susanna Kaysen
“Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.” PeopleWayHeartI CanImportantStoriesSpiritCultureLiteratureParentImaginationImagineBest WayStorytellingHeart To Heart Author:Alice Walker
“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
“But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?” ImportantFormSunImagineParticularPlanetsUniversalVanityAppropriateManifestImagine ThatStaggering Author:John Wyndham
“Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.” TryingMindImportantEvilEffortDestinyImaginePossibilityMirrorsInstrumentsTriumphInfinityDaringCreedsMaliceCoercionInvitingFrightSuppressionCountrymenBanalityMeticulous Author:Charles A. Beard
“It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.” KindImportantIdeasStatesCertainChoicesCoursesDecisionAnimalImagineStyleParticularExpressionHairMassBasesDemocraticLeavingCommandPropagandaVotingControlledVotersImagine ThatPreferenceCircusSuitableFacialOratoryBe EncouragedImportant DecisionsImplantsTruismFacial Expression Author:Revilo P. Oliver
“It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It's important that I take them. There were periods where I didn't have money, and I would imagine that someone would come to me and say: 'Here is money, you can go do your photography, but you must not show it.' I would have accepted right away. On the other hand, if someone had come to me saying: 'Here is money to do your photography, but after your death it must be destroyed,' I would have refused.” IfsImportantShowsHandsImaginePeriodsPhotographyPhotographerAcceptedDestroyedImagine That Author:Josef Koudelka
“Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works.” ThinkingWorldWayBelieveImportantUseRealityImaginePlanetsImportant ThingsSpreadBelieve In YouVisualizationPragmaticPower Of Visualization Author:Yoko Ono
“The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.” IfsImportantEndsHomeChoicesSleepViewsBehindsImagineTruth IsLuckyConversationImportant ThingsDrinkingGenderSpeedDevotionThe End Of The DayBottlesThings In LifeInvestigationHandsomeTenseDetectivesBreakdownOrientationGeneral Public Book:Moon Over Soho Source: Moon Over Soho
“Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation - is worth it to me. [It is] impossible for me to imagine having my life without going to those parties, without having those late nights, without that second bottle.” WritingImportantSometimesHelpingNightPartyImagineImpossibleConversationLateArgumentHelp MeBottlesWorth ItWhat's ImportantLate Night Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.” PeopleTryingImportantIdeasUniverseAttentionImagineMinutesConceptsBasesCenter Of The Universe Author:John Green
“Imagine if I cannot stand someone and every day he is here in my face, then I cannot work. Then, the whole time, I am thinking "I hate him, I hate him." But if I love him or I love her, then I can do anything, then I am comfortable. That's why it's so important to be surrounded by people that you really like.” PeopleIfsThinkingI CanImportantWholeFacesHateCan DoImagineComfortableI HateI Love HimHate HimI Hate Him Author:Marjane Satrapi
“The Body thinks it has an agenda that is important. And the Mind imagines that its agenda is vital to your survival. But the older you get the more you realize that it is the Soul's agenda, and only the Soul's agenda, that matters.” ThinkingMindImportantSoulMatterBodyPurposeRealizingImagineSurvivalAgendasPurpose Of LifeImagine That Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.” IfsThinkingWorldLifeMayImportantMovingExistenceImagineBreathsFilledAbsenceCirclesFancyConvinceGapsPausesAlasSomething Better Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone.” PeopleHumansImportantEarthHuman BeingsAnimalImaginePlanetsConsciousReach OutSolar System Author:Steve Martin
“The world would be a vastly better place if people saw their need for God and accepted Him as Savior and Lord. And then lived by His rule of Love being the most important thing. Can you imagine the world if everyone was motivated by love for others?” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsImportantWould BeLove IsLordSawsImagineImportant ThingsAcceptedMotivatedSaviorBetter Place Author:Mary Engelbreit
“Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here today may be less concerned than others. Globalization means that the "butterfly effect" is everywhere at work. The mistakes of a stockbroker in Singapore or the collapse of the Baht in Bangkok, the decisions of a Finnish industrial concern, or what the Governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil decides to do about his State's debt, have had consequences for the world as a whole.” WorldMayMeanImportantStatesWholeGovernmentTodayDecisionBusinessMistakeImagineEffectsInformationPleaseConsequenceConcernConcernedDebtButterflyCollapseImagine ThatGovernorsGlobalizationBrazilSingaporeFinnishStockbrokersBangkokButterfly EffectGovernment And Business Author:Jacques Chirac
“When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can't imagine why they kept me.” YearsI CanImportantStoriesMotherFatherParentFiveFourImagineHeardFive YearsSurvivorHolocaustMaking LoveFive Year Olds Author:Christian Boltanski
“I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down from my producing partners to people like Eddie Vedder. But the two things that make me feel that this was meant to be now and not before was that the story itself has more resonance today - I find it a more important story today than it was then - and Emile.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensI CanTwoImportantStoriesTodayImagineLuckyPartnersTwo ThingsMeant To BeResonanceWere Meant To Be Author:Sean Penn
“When somebody speaks a language that we don't know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!” KnowsSaidImportantSpeakLanguageImagineImportant ThingsImagine That Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, really. The most important thing about choosing a name for a band is if you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison.” PeopleIfsLittlesImportantNamesSoundLosesImagineThousandBandImportant ThingsSeriesFortyAssociatesUnison Author:Brian Molko
“If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.” PeopleIfsHumansI CanImportantHuman BeingsImagineDependsAskingInstitutionsCupsRespectfulCompetitiveness Author:Tom Peters
“Fostering creativity in children is as important as any other part of the school curriculum because it feeds the soul. A daily dose of creativity helps children imagine a better world and then create it.” WorldChildrenImportantSoulHelpingSchoolCreativityImagineDoseCurriculumFosteringSchool Curriculum Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
“We with [ Marjane Satrapi] always work together on the script which is very important. We even film each other and we start to imagine things so that we are ready, because when you start shooting, it's pretty stressful.” ImportantTogetherFilmImagineReadyScriptsShootingWorking TogetherStressful Author:Vincent Paronnaud
“Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.” KnowsImportantCareImagineDullOffendedOffence Author:Marcus Brigstocke
“I do have one regret though. I wish Kathy Acker was still alive. I wish I could go swim with her again. My literary indebtedness to her is enormous. She's a more important mother to me than anyone can possibly imagine. In language I became a daughter worth a crap because of her. In language I redefined daughter, woman, I became a writer. Dora is an homage of sorts.” StillsImportantMotherLanguageWishAliveImagineRegretDaughterEnormousSwimCrapHomageIndebtedness Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.” WorldTryingImportantStoriesSeemsFormFictionImagineAgendasAnalyzing Author:Jim Shepard
“Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said, we must always imagine Sisyphus happy, and this is not so difficult when it's a matter of texts that reveal important truths about being human.” HumansSaidImportantMatterDifficultImagineTasksInterpretationBeing HumanSisyphus Author:George Pattison
“Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.” ThinkingWayI CanImportantChristianImagineBecomingFindingsMy WayHelpfulAllies Author:Frederick Buechner
“The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my own "complicated grief" in on the process. You can imagine how tempting it is to try to fight the part of you that loops and loops, caught up in tangled sorrow from which it seems there's no escape.” WritingTryingImportantBookSeemsFightingProcessSidesMy OwnGriefPiecesImagineSorrowAspectCaughtComplicatedCaught UpObsessiveTemptingLoopsTangledComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen
“it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience to touch your music and to hear it and hear it in the room with you and to say, you can't have an entire orchestra there, but you'd kind of like to have the orchestra there.” WorldKindImportantRoomsSilenceImagineWonderfulComplexesMusicalComposerOrchestraWonderful Experience Author:Tod Machover
“If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are ready for the new millennium. We're way behind compared to countries in Europe. If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.” IfsKnowsWayChildrenImportantCountryCultureUnderstandingForgetBehindsImagineReadyEuropeSensibilityEducatorWhat's ImportantMillennium Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Once in 1979, [Zbigniew] Brzezinski gave an important slogan: "Bye-bye PLO." After two months, I was in Tehran saying to him: "Bye-bye Brzezinski." Who can imagine that America will lose one of its strongest bases?” TwoImportantAmericaLosesImagineMonthsBasesStrongestImagine ThatSlogansByeTwo MonthsTehranBye Bye Author:Yasser Arafat