“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
“I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFirstsArtDifferentCoursesCommunityImaginationImaginePlansCitizensOppressedCitizenshipSomething Better Author:Lee Maracle
“Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it.” WorldUseDreamEarthMotherBornImaginePlansRiskProductsCancerAvailableImagine ThatDeliveryStorage Author:Frank Oski
“Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know” KnowsGivenCitiesImaginePlansProgramWhy NotSovietRepresentativesRocketsDisneylandPadsLaunching Author:Nikita Khrushchev
“Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland: the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all of the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.” IdeasEnoughImaginePlansLandSpecialBlessingSizeEnjoyedFloridaSomething SpecialDisneylandEpcot Author:Walt Disney
“What empowerment is all about [is] finding something which infuses you with a sense of mission, with a passion for your life's work. I don't believe there is one path for women or one nature to fulfill. Real fulfillment, real empowerment is often different than we imagine and better than we plan.” BelieveDifferentRealPassionPathImaginePlansFindingsEmpowermentDon't BelieveMissionsFulfillment Author:Elizabeth Dole
“since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in a little devotion. At first their plan succeeded, but now no one can bear their comedies.” IfsFirstsLittlesWould BeComedyPiecesImaginePlansFashionBearsTheaterCourtDevotionWelcomeDramaticImagine ThatPiety Author:Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans
“I really don't understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years.” IfsWayTryingYearsStatesWould BeNextEnjoyDifferencesPartyImaginePlansFiguresDinnerInsaneMealsAgreementItalianSplitsPreferenceGoing To WorkTireRimsBipartisanshipAnthrax Author:John Cole
“The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.” MenHumansDoeDifferentHandsSeemsGovernmentMightSufferingPrinciplesPiecesWiseImaginePlansHe ManMembersIdealsInvestingChessEaseBoardsImagine ThatSmallestImpressConceitLegislatureHuman SocietyDeviationVery WiseWealth Of NationsGreat Society Author:Adam Smith
“It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.” KnowsDoeWould BeEarthImaginePlansSightImagine ThatNaivePlain SightEvacuation Author:John Hodgman
“The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.” PeopleNeedsFeelsTryingMomentsFeltRealizingAttentionBrainFocusImaginePlansWorstStageHappeningsCalmTerrorConsistentThat MomentSurprisingThreadSurvivingWorst Moments Author:Amanda Ripley
“I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.” PeopleIfsWayBelieveLongI BelieveRoomsLordImaginePlansStagePeriodsEuropeTragedyPreparedObviousStoresSpiteGroceriesProfileDoubtedLockersGrocery StoresLong Periods Of TimeLocker RoomPersonal Tragedy Author:Kurt Warner
“I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you cannot imagine a whole novel before you write it; there are limits to human memory and imagination. Lots of things come to your mind as you write a book, but again, I make a plan, chapter, know the plot.” KnowsWritingMindHumansBookWholeCoursesImaginationMemoriesNovelImaginePlansLimitsPlotChapters Author:Orhan Pamuk
“Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.” YearsSometimesReadingImaginePlansHonorFindingsMarkBoundariesMonumentSurveyors Author:Mark Mason
“I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.” KnowsImaginePlansKnowing God Author:Jim Hamilton
“And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also, he said, "No, it would be impossible for me to imagine the way it will come out." He said, "Yes, I story-boarded it, I had a plan, but then I work with an army of great artists and I want all of them to create inside that creation."” WayWantSaidStoriesWould BeArtistAnswersImaginePlansImpossibleCreationDadArmyMy DadGreat ArtGreat Artist Author:Brian Henson
“A lot of things get made this way: someone imagines what they want to make, then very carefully plans every step of the process, then sets about making it. That's usually the efficient, reasonable way to get something done, but it limits you to ideas you can think of in advance.” ThinkingWayWantMadeIdeasDoneProcessStepsImaginePlansLimitsReasonableEfficientEvery Step Author:Damian Kulash
“Make sure that you take the time to think about how other companies might respond to your idea, both those companies already in the market you plan to target as well as others that might imagine targeting that market.” ThinkingWellsIdeasMightCompanyImaginePlansTargetTime To Think Author:Scott D. Anthony