“I think before Twitter people didn't think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I'm trying to say, if we're trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over. Some of it will be just like the cell phone, you can't imagine not having it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayTryingSocialStuffImagineSticksPhonesMeaningfulBunchCellsPlatformsCell Phone Author:Biz Stone
“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 love young adult fantasies. While I say that, I have not seen all of the Twilight and Harry Potter movies. But I've read all of the books, and I love them. I love them because I enjoy being transported to a different world and having my imagination challenged. That's a huge part of what we do as actors. We have to imagine ourselves in a different world. And when you are in a young adult fantasy, it challenges you in the best way.” WorldWayBookDifferentYoungActorsEnjoyImaginationChallengesFantasyImagineLove YouHugeAdultsYoung AdultBest WayTwilightHarry PotterMy ImaginationPottersDifferent WorldsHarry Potter Movie Author:Viola Davis
“I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room” IfsMenWayWantShouldI CanMomentsYoungCertainRoomsWonderNovelImagineLimitsShadowGainsLonelyUnionsWorkersYoung ManRevelationsHotelRopeAppearingFlatteringAlleysHotel RoomsImmediacyLonely Women Author:James Vance
“When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life - I don't recommend this by the way - and you pick up, oh, what'd you do that for? Why didn't you understand this?” ThinkingWayI CanImagineCreatingPicks Author:Toni Morrison
“I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.” WayI CanWould BeExistenceImagineDebateOne WayBecause I CanExistence Of God Author:Susan Jacoby
“I found out that detectives are really good dressers. I'm not even exaggerating. The woman I interviewed had these fantastic fuschia suede heels on that I coveted. And that they're invested in their jobs the same way you and I might be. We think of them as doing these jobs that we could never imagine doing, but their relationship to what they do is the same as our relationship to what we do.” ThinkingWayMightJobsFoundImagineFantasticHeelsOur RelationshipDetectivesExaggeratingDressers Author:Kristin Lehman
“The problem has to be answered by means of art, because you can't blast them with bliss. Tat freaks them out even more. So instead, you have to have an artful way of approaching them. You do a dance for them, you get them to imagine being interconnected, and to imagine being free of their suffering, and not so self involved, through art that draws them out. Then you, and they, are all established in what's called a Buddha-verse, or Buddha-land” WayMeanArtSelfProblemSufferingImagineLandInvolvedDrawsArt IsBlissFreakVersesBlastBeing FreeInterconnected Author:Robert Thurman
“I think that as actresses - and I've definitely gone through this in a really bizarre way, because I worked so much and was really lucky with the roles that I got when I was younger - I remember hearing the older actors saying, "It gets tough," and thinking, "Really? I can't imagine."” ThinkingWayI CanRememberActorsRolesGoneImagineLuckyToughHearingActressesBizarre Author:Winona Ryder
“I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of possibilities. If readers are to be prompted to serious examination of their lives, anatomy isn't enough. We have to be stimulated to imagine, in some detail, what it would be like to live in particular ways.” IfsWayEnoughWould BeImaginePossibilityParticularSeriousReaderDetailsDiscussionAbstractSuspectsExplorationWorthwhileVividExaminationPresentationAnatomy Author:Philip Kitcher
“Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.” ThinkingWayI CanImportantChristianImagineBecomingFindingsMy WayHelpfulAllies Author:Frederick Buechner
“Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It's one way of better understanding your experience, comparing it to other possible experiences you can imagine having.” IfsWayWritingKindMadeUnderstandingDifferencesTakenImagineMade ItOne WayCompareEncountersSuggestingHelenInterrogationRoad Not Taken Author:Laura Mullen
“If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.” IfsWayEnoughSpeakClearImagineMythEnormousSymbolsColourInterpretationRainbowFolklore Author:Diana Wynne Jones
“I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.” PeopleThinkingWayPlayWholeSongHouseStuffRecordsImagineSingingPicksWhole LifeStuckVarietyImagine That Author:Chris Isaak
“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
“So if we can't express it or repress it, what do we do when we feel angry? The answer is to recognize the anger, but choose to respond to the situation differently. Easier said than done, right? Can you actually imagine trying to strong-arm your anger into another, more amicable feeling? It would never work. Determination alone won't work. It takes a new intelligence to understand and manage our emotions. By getting your head and heart in coherence and allowing the heart's intelligence to work for you, you can have a realistic chance of transforming your anger in a healthy way.” IfsWayFeelsTryingHeartSaidDoneFeelingsStrongChanceAnswersEmotionSituationImagineArmsEasierHealthyDeterminationAngerManagementAngryManageWorking ItAllowingRealisticTransformingAnger ManagementCoherenceHead And HeartStrong ArmsEasier Said Than Done Author:Doc Childre
“There's no way a human being can escape his or her human-ness to be able to imagine God. We can talk about how we've experienced God, not what or who God is.” WayHumansAbleHuman BeingsImagineWho God Is Author:John Shelby Spong
“The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"” PeopleWaySaidI CanWholeBeautifulHoursChurchImagineFrontsGoes OnBecomingMembersWanderOrthodoxAmerican WomanBeautiful YouTruth Of God Author:Andrew Solomon
“Imagine a German as president of the European Commission. If he or she goes to some particular country and says do this or that, it won't be very well received. The president quickly ends up being the evil German. But if the president is elected by and controlled by 700 representatives from all EU countries, that legitimizes him or her in a very different way.” IfsWayWellsDifferentEndsCountryEvilPresidentImagineParticularDifferent WaysControlledRepresentatives Author:Martin Schulz
“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
“If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are ready for the new millennium. We're way behind compared to countries in Europe. If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.” IfsKnowsWayChildrenImportantCountryCultureUnderstandingForgetBehindsImagineReadyEuropeSensibilityEducatorWhat's ImportantMillennium Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Imagine if the mistakes we made actually helped us to just become better versions of ourselves. I believe this is what life is about, and when we look at it this way, then there is nothing to be afraid of!” IfsWayBelieveLooksMadeLife IsI BelieveMistakeImagineVersions Author:Gretchen Bleiler
“Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.” IfsWayWholeTalkingImaginePhotographDiscussionNot Talking Author:Garry Winogrand
“I believe there is magic everywhere. From the way art takes form from an idea and can be shared, to the way we love, to the way the world creates what we need to survive and that through all that, that we are part of a universe that is bigger than we could imagine. That's magical.” WorldWayNeedsBelieveArtIdeasFormUniverseI BelieveImagineMagicBiggerImagine That Author:Janine and The Mixtape
“Imagine having love for someone and being told, "You're not allowed to experience that love because you're not allowed to experience pain." It's a dilemma that so many people with bipolar can't reconcile. They can't find a way out of it. The truth is that you can have both.” PeopleWayPainLove IsImagineTruth IsDilemmaReconcileBipolar Author:Paul Dalio
“I find social media as fun and engaging as the next person, but imagine if all the creative talent that was pouring into finding increasingly clever ways for us to broadcast daily banality (and then serve ads based on what is learned) instead focused on some of the UN Millennium goals? The world would be a better place.” IfsWorldWayPersonsWould BeNextFunSocialGoalCreativeImagineTalentMediaFindingsSocial MediaFocusedCleverAdsEngagingBetter PlacePouringMillenniumBanality Author:Scott D. Anthony