“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.” PeopleI CanImagineMiddleObjectsAppreciatePhotographerRectangles Author:William Eggleston
“We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other players must guess what it is by asking questions that can be answered with a "yes" or a "no." I imagine every language has a similar game, and, for those of us who speak the language of science, the game is called The Scientific Method.” PlayGamesSpeakLanguageImaginePlayerObjectsTwentiesAskingMethodAsking QuestionsScientific Method Author:Karl Barry Sharpless
“The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.” StillsSocialImagineImpossibleObjectsProductsInnovationEverydayDumbConsumersDigitalPaceAstonishingSocial NetworkSmartphonesEveryday Objects Author:Andy Hobsbawm
“All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.” MayEnoughDesireBornImagineStyleObjectsGreatnessProduceHumilityPassionateExpensesAccuracyDisinterested Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel
“Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him; but it requires loftiness of mind, and the heaven-born spirit of virtue, to imagine greatness where it is not, and to deck the sordid objects of nature in the beautiful robes of loveliness and light.” MindHeartMeanLightActionBeautifulSpiritHeavenBornVirtueImagineObjectsGreatnessUglyFancySuspicionDeckRobesLoveliness Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have desires; it is only your mind's objectivisation. It is your own mind's play which imagines that an object-call it the mind or whatever-can hold onto you. It is the idea you have of who you are that is holding onto its own fearful projections as the mind. Leave all of this and remain as the pure, joyous Self.” WorldMindDoeIdeasSelfPlayDesireImagineObjectsPureWho You AreFearfulImagine ThatHolding OnProjectionJoyous Author:Mooji
“The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise . . .” GivingMightNiceImagineObjectsRaisesInvestmentFinancialFlyingChiefsErasOfficersCeoBoostBookkeepersCioCfo Book:Coming to terms Source: Coming to terms
“If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.” IfsGivingShouldWellsMayStatesFeelingsHeavenSunImagineTreeObjectsSweetFlowerEternalBlessedShiningFruitGoldenSilverOrangeLoadedMetaphoricalGroveFruitionAllusion Author:Humphry Davy
“Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual.” FirstsBelieveLongIndividualImagineObjectsPoetTalesLong AgoProphecyRemembrance Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.” ThinkingI CanSometimesTogetherMy OwnImagineObjectsBuiltMathematicalDesksConstructsTemptedBecause I CanIkea Author:James Arthur
“We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred history. Yet, unless we make this effort of imagination, Medieval art is largely incomprehensible.” MindArtStatesImaginationEffortImagineObjectsMaterialsArt IsMathematicsSacredSymbolsState Of MindEpisodesMedieval Author:Kenneth Clark
“The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.” BelieveI BelieveGoalPerfectImagineFailingObjectsWasteOppositesBiggerReproachBirthright Author:Seth Godin