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“People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.”

People Thinking Want Writing Believe Difficult Fiction Imagine Easier Memoir Novelists Imaginary Imagine That Imaginary Life

Author:Mark Leyner

“I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.”

Thinking Imagine Musician Seeking Pursue Celebrity Status

Author:Natalie Merchant

“Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.”

Thinking Hard Imagine Going Away Utility

Author:Sean Parker

“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.”

Thinking I Can Important Clear Imagine Plans Right Now Messages Dues Appropriate Regimes Collapse Troops Organisation Nato Due Time Gaddafi

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Wells Persons Life Is Imagine Sincere Compassionate Sincerely Life Is Like Satirical

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!”

Ifs Thinking Should Littles Would Be Artist Stuff Deals Imagine West Track Old Stuff

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.”

Thinking Men Imagine Worst Hundred

Author:Neil Strauss

“I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.”

People Ifs Thinking Imagine Circumstances Faults Screwed Up

Author:Gore Verbinski

“People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.”

People Thinking Kind Guy Talking Imagine Cold Truth Is Wounds Bunch Killers Hearted Seals Heartless Toughness Brainwashed Mental Toughness Cold Blooded Kind Hearted Jovial

Author:Howard E. Wasdin

“Most people don't understand that at a thought has a frequency - every thought has a frequency. We can measure a thought, so if you're thinking about a thought over and over and over again, or if you're imagining in your mind, having that brand new car, having that money that you need, building that company, finding your soul mate, if you imagine what that looks like your're emitting that frequency on a consistent basis.”

“If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen.”

Ifs Thinking Character Dream Speak Voice Imagine Particular Skins Chosen

Author:André Brink

“The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.”

People Ifs Thinking I Can Ideas Would Be Eye Imagine Wonderful Exciting Screens Projectors

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Art Different Courses Community Imagination Imagine Plans Citizens Oppressed Citizenship Something Better

Author:Lee Maracle

“What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?”

People Ifs Thinking Games Imagine Balls My Time Think Of Me Ball Games Wasted My Time

Author:Grover Cleveland

“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”

Thinking Men Moral Imagine Morality Immoral Psychoanalysis Immorality

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Use the imagination to picture only what is good, what is beautiful, what is beneficial, what is ideal, and what you wish to realize. Mentally see yourself receiving what you deeply desire to receive. What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become. Therefore, if you imagine only those things that are in harmony with what you wish to obtain or achieve, all your thinking will soon tend to produce what you want to attain or achieve.”

Ifs Thinking Want Use Beautiful Desire Wish Realizing Imagination Imagine Achieve Produce Ideals Harmony What You Want Receiving Beneficial

Author:Christian D. Larson

“Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.”

“I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Beautiful Song Dies Our Lives Imagine Scared Careful Beautiful Things

Author:Beth Gibbons

“I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.”

People Thinking Way Looks Kind Different Matter Moments Imagine No Matter What One Way Another Way Different Life

Author:Kristen Wiig

“The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.”

Thinking I Can Actors Roles Imagine Compliment

Author:Jeff Daniels

“This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.”

Thinking I Can Sound Imagine Crazy Guitar Piano Guitar Playing

Author:Ryan Adams

“Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.”

People Ifs Thinking World Years Persons Bigs Lasts Deals Millions Imagine Impact Developing Last Year Big Deal Smartphones

Author:Eric Schmidt

“Saddam Hussein has invited members from the U.S. Congress to visit Iraq. Man how stupid is Hussein? If you think Bush had incentive to bomb Iraq before, imagine if Congress was over there.”

Ifs Thinking Men Imagine Stupid Members Congress Iraq Bombs Saddam Invited Incentives Hussein

Author:Jay Leno

“Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.”

Thinking Mind Humans Ends Religion Difficult Imagine Divine Color Army Reasoning Human Intelligence Sergeants

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“Go first to your Highest Thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others would do and say. Do you see any difference between that projection and what you think, do, and say now?”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Would Be Differences Imagine Highest About Yourself Projection

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.”

Thinking Way Country Imagine Loneliness Islands Isolation Dislike Swedish

Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

“In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.”

People Ifs Thinking Heart Has Beens Real Moments Remember Easy Waiting Realizing Forget Support Imagine Touched Remarkable Warmth Emanate Daily Living Always With You Patiently Waiting

Author:Barbara Sher

“If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.”

Ifs Thinking Whole Able Individual Can Do Imagine Risk Weapons Harm Nuclear Enormous Isolated Nuclear Weapons Lunatic Civil Society

Author:Joshua Lederberg

“Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.”

Thinking Knows Men Speak Deals Common Imagine Teaching Ignorance He Man Speech Profound Imagine That Dogmatic Common Knowledge Teaching Others

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Today Imagine Son Hot Fellows Congress Senators Jackasses

Author:Will Rogers

“The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any way that you think it should be?”

Thinking Way Should Imagine Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall - that is unity”

Thinking Body Millions Imagine Intention Unity Halls Imagine That Splits Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I don't think I'm better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.”

Thinking Done Imagine Prove Mma

Author:Anderson Silva

“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.”

Thinking Way Long Made Important Bigs Happens Next Winning Strong Term Loss Decision Imagine Worst Special Emotional Periods Weak Trade Profit Temptation Something Special Streaks Insidious

Author:William Eckhardt

“There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind of suspension. That's where you find the layer in yourself that is duplicated in everyone. And when you get it right, if you can imagine all the hearts beating in one beat, it's like that. It's beautiful.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Kind Happens Beautiful Secret Imagine Fronts Movement Strange Beats Cameras Layers Heart Beat Suspension Heart Beating

Author:Juliette Binoche

“Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.”

People Thinking World Trying Ends Seems Might Views Half Imagine This World Building Comfort Comfortable Regard Prison Ugly Doctrine Optimistic Hotel Pessimist Other Half

Author:C. S. Lewis

“If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.”

Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…

“I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I think I wanted to be a writer, or at least to try for a while.”

Thinking Trying Stills I Can Done Wanted Careers Imagine Profession Not Sure

Book:A Peter Gzowski Reader

Source: A Peter Gzowski Reader

“When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking, what they wanted to convey. If you do that, you might get something amazing.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying Heart Book Might Wanted Reading Imagine Touching

Author:Mizuki Nomura

“Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.”

Thinking Years Different Form Five Imagine Heard Hundred Years Ago Cat Madness Stranger Tricks Likes Imagine That Yards Grey Present Day

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Think colour! Know how to imagine it!”

Thinking Knows Know How Imagine Colour

Author:Gustave Moreau

“Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.”

Source: General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century

“The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.”

Thinking Imagine

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.”

Thinking Way Mean Ideas Done Sound Knowing Environment Imagine Goes On Details Contemporary Abstract Imagine That Contemporary Music Knowing More

Author:John Cage

“I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything -- the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Teach Imagine Stupid Periods Weakness Intelligent Rage Violent Treated Imagine That Frustrated Subliminal

Author:Martin Amis

“Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.”

Thinking Language Cases Imagine Expression Suits Permit Vague

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.”

Thinking Reason Problem Language Imagine Dangerous Solutions Program Connections Errors Features Programmers Eliminating Problems And Solutions

Book:The C++ Programming Language

Source: The C++ Programming Language

“I don't recall that I have said and I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood or even that it would be desirable to have a single government elected by the people of the world.”

People Thinking World Needs Feels Said I Can Government Would Be Together Imagine Working Together Imagine That Recalls Desirable Likelihood World Government

Author:David Rockefeller

“I recently went mad and spent 1,000 in one afternoon on bras and knickers. I love classy, lacy stuff that makes you feel dead sexy knowing you've got it on. I've never worn stockings and suspenders, though. But I could imagine they'd make you feel really sexy worn under something formal. I think I'll save that experience and wear them under my wedding dress.”

Thinking Feels Stuff Knowing Imagine Dresses Mad Sexy Afternoon Worn Formal Underwear Bras Stockings Wedding Dress Knickers Suspenders

Author:Jennifer Ellison

“I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.”

Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles