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“There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.”

Littles Law Imagination Natural Practice Clear Ears Sensitive Dependent Composition Acquaintance Aptitude Rhetorical Clear Head

Book:Philosophy of Style: An Essay

Source: Philosophy of Style: An Essay

“Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.”

“For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.”

Way Imagination Practice Fundamentals Remains Drawing Vehicle

Author:Shahzia Sikander

“Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.”

Believe Heart Doe Done Use Imagination Knowledge Practice Ignorance Terror Deeds Conquer Panic Shrinks Attempting Liable Encouragers

Book:Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

“Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and psychologically purify the poisons. So indeed, the generative idea is in the crux of this practice and of my propensity toward poetry, which is a practice of the imagination.”

Ideas Imagination Compassion Practice Breathe Circles Versions Alternatives Poison Propensity Crux

Author:Anne Waldman

“It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.”

Humans Sex Imagination Human Beings Practice Activity Importance Significant Fancy Application Deliberate Human Activity Thesis

Author:John Norman

“While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority.”

Source: The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant

“It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.”

People Mean Imagination Practice Danger Brave Errors

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature.”

Writing Humans Interest Imagination Practice Human Nature Activity Constitution Insight Separation Executives Division Occupation Anatomy

Author:John Dewey

“Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing things away. A frog lays several million eggs at a sitting. Only a few dozen of these become tadpoles, and only a few of those become frogs. We can let imagination and practice be as profligate as nature.”

Artist Imagination Practice Millions Sitting Mark Lays Creator Eggs Throwing Dozen Frogs Brahms Tadpoles Throwing Things

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art