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“It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.”

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.”

Mean Art Ideas Ends Whole Dream Waiting Imagination Trouble Exciting Flying Handle Plenty Means To An End

Author:Walt Disney

“There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few, that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right.”

Source: The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the Rights of Things

“The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.”

Thinking Enough Shows Imagination Trouble Accused Wishful Thinking

Book:Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship

Source: Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship

“I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.”

Mind Littles Reality Imagination Fantasy Trouble Active Hyper Fantasy And Reality

Book:Annie Hall: scénario bilingue

Source: Annie Hall: scénario bilingue

“One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.”

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.”

World Today Lying Understanding Imagination Trouble This World World Today Lack Of Understanding Power Of Imagination

Book:Law of Success - Law of Attraction

Source: Law of Success - Law of Attraction

“We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.”

World Years Wells May Moments Reality Pain Desire Turns Imagination Creative Taken Trouble Possibility Fit Distance Busy Constructs Sabotage

Author:David Whyte