“Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.” PeopleMillionsImagineMonthsHeroSixDesperateIdolsSix Months Author:Joachim Peiper
“How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.” StillsTwoDifferentHardInterestingGoneOur LivesImagineRiskPlanetsMonthsHeroCreaturesDiscoverySurpriseHanging OutExplorationLandingKirk Book:Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time? Source: Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?
“If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you'll feel a week - a month - a year later. If you can imagine yourself being happy and peaceful then, why waste all that time? Be happy and peaceful now.” IfsThinkingFeelsYearsImagineWeekMonthsWastePeacefulDistress Author:Goswami Kriyananda
“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.” WritingWarEndsMotherCoursesGivenClassImagineMonthsBirthSkillsPreparedComplexesNotionNineAbsurdAcquireCompositionNaiveNine Months Author:Mary Blakely
“Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.” IfsArtStatesNamesCompanyImagineMonthsDevelopmentComputerApplesCopiesSoftwareRestraintCopyingSoftware Development Author:Bill Gates
“Imagine, 24 pages of superhero adventures produced by the same writer and artist every month!! How did they do it? (What? By being professional about it? But that's too much like work!)” ArtistToo MuchImagineAdventureMonthsPagesSuperhero Author:John Byrne
“No one is indispensable to anyone else. You imagine you're necessary to him or that he will be very unhappy if you leave him, but I'm sure that if you do, within three months he will have fitted another face into your role and you'll see that no one is suffering because of your absence. You must feel free to do whatever feels best to you. Being someone's nurse is no way to live unless you're unable to do anything else. You have to say something on your own and you ought to be thinking, first and foremost, about that.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsFirstsFacesSufferingThreeRolesImagineMonthsOughtAbsenceUnhappyNurseIndispensableWay To LiveThree MonthsYour AbsenceThinking First Author:Francoise Gilot
“You are capable of more than you realize. You are far more capable than you were even 12 months ago. Next year you will be able to do things you can't imagine doing today.” YearsTodayAbleNextRealizingImagineMonthsCapableNext Year Author:Bobb Biehl
“It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of her for nine months, and then have to say goodbye. And so it's hard for me to understand that pain and that process.” ChildrenHardPainFatherProcessImagineMomMonthsBirthRaisesNineGoodbyeSaying GoodbyeNine Months Author:Michael Franti
“The second guy I met on the Internet was Tom, who I dated for around 6 months, which is by far the longest relationship I've ever had as an adult. We long distance dated mostly, chatting everyday for a long time on FB chat and Skype. It's hard to imagine a more genuinely caring and kind individual. I owe a lot to him.” KindLongHardGuyIndividualImagineMonthsInternetMetsLong TimeAdultsDistanceEverydayCaringTomsLong DistanceChattingSkype Author:Marie Calloway
“I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.” LinesImagineMonthsSixSix MonthsCalendarsPredeterminedFluidity Author:Feist
“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