“Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.” LightChristianChristianityClearImagineShapesGloryStandingWindowArmyDefinedVisibleRaysWithout YouOutlinesSplendorChristian FaithCathedralsUnspeakableRays Of Light Author:John Ruskin
“I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.” NeedsFeelsBodyPastRememberDeathDesireCoursesNamesFearPeaceRealizingDifferencesCasesImagineDangerFutureShapesSafeComplexesProtectionYour BodyVulnerableTimelessTimelessnessUnsafeRemembering The Past Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.” KnowsWritingMeanEndsImagineJourneyYouthShapes Author:Gore Vidal
“The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.” ImagineInternetShapes Author:Nicola Formichetti
“Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.” GivingWellsArtActionPoliticalDesirePoliticsProcessCreativeImagineExpressionShapesDrawingCreative ProcessPolitical Action Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him. The synthetic writer constructs and creates his own reader; he does not imagine him as resting and dead, but lively and advancing toward him. He makes that which he had invented gradually take shape before the reader's eyes, or he tempts him to do the inventing for himself. He does not want to make a particular effect on him, but rather enters into a solemn relationship of innermost symphilosophy or sympoetry.” WantDoeEyeLiteratureImagineEffectsParticularReaderShapesMachinesAppropriateConstructsSolemnCalculationsLivelyInventingAdvancingSynthetic Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves.” MindSelfBodyNamesImagineShapesDiversityMultipleMind And BodyMisled Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.” PeopleThinkingImagineWillingShapesPracticalsRobots Author:Colin Angle
“I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.” MightPastIndividualImagineIdentityShapesUniqueCollectivesImagine That Author:Steve Cosson
“think we're still stuck in that agricultural mindset, where we imagine that we can shape the Earth. Sure, we can do that. But the Earth has the power to shape us much more powerfully. To survive climate change, we'll have to realize how dependent we are on our ecosystems for our own survival.” ThinkingStillsEarthCan DoRealizingImagineShapesSurvivalClimateClimate ChangeMindsetStuckDependentImagine ThatEcosystems Author:Annalee Newitz
“Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal that begins its life in the water, but ends it on land - already, that's pretty weird. But, also, a lot of them are incredibly tiny and look wildly improbable. They have funny little toes, they stretch their throats into weird bubble shapes when they croak, and some of them are poisonous to the touch. I think kids from the twenty-second century might mythologize amphibians the way kids today mythologize dinosaurs.” ThinkingWayFirstsLooksMayLittlesEndsMightKidsTodayWaterAnimalImagineCrazyLandCenturyDyingShapesTwentiesTinyHaving FunThroatBubblesToesFrogsDinosaursImprobablePoisonousAmphibiansSalamanders Author:Annalee Newitz
“I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.” I CanHardBigsTogetherSongFunPiecesImagineMiddleShapesProjectsCreatingTablesCookingAlbumsMealsClothingsImagine ThatRecipesClay Author:Erykah Badu
“When you edit, you imagine your enemy is seated on the other side of the table. Your enemy! And your enemy is going to read that with a viciousness, because he knows where you didn't work on it. He's going to shake it and really aim for that jugular. So you are going to polish, and revise, and rewrite, and cut out, and shape it, so that your enemy has no place to grip it. That's how you revise.” KnowsSidesEnemyCuttingImagineShapesAimTablesShakesPolishEdits Author:Sandra Cisneros