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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. -- John Green
Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart. -- Cecelia Ahern
Imagining and visualising the situation prepares you for any challenge -- Debra Searle
Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past. -- C. K. Prahalad
Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be. -- Patricia McCormick
Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it, -- Frederick Leboyer
Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen. -- Shakti Gawain
Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it. -- Leslie Jamison
I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing. -- Joan Didion
Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics. -- Russell Brand
Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. -- John Green
Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness. -- Stefan Molyneux
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea. -- William Butler Yeats
Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to? -- Pauline Kael
Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and the beginning of morality -- Ian Mcewan
I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. -- John Green
Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions. -- Fred Rogers
Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists. -- John Green
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints. -- John Dryden
Each person has unspeakable distress. When I remember the past, annoying, I cry; The reality of today is too cruel, too severe, and doesn't even offer me a dream; Imagining the future brings me yet another kind of tears -- Aya Kito
She'd always wondered what it would feel like to stand on one end of a ballroom and watch a handsome, powerful man make his way to her. This was as close as she'd ever come to it, she supposed. Standing at Diana's side. Imagining. -- Tessa Dare
Man is an imagining being. -- Gaston Bachelard
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. -- Barbara Sher
I love imagining being someone else in another time. -- Georgina Chapman
I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do. -- David Byrne
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. -- Philip Dormer Stanhope
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. -- Zoltan Kodaly
That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is. -- Julie Mehretu
Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place. -- Neil Kurshan
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. -- Max Beerbohm
Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us. -- Noreena Hertz
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I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you. -- Greta Scacchi
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. -- Douglas Coupland
If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance. -- Gina Barreca
America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage. -- Mark McKinnon
Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps. -- Barry Ritholtz
I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum. -- Tim Vine
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it. -- Yo-Yo Ma
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. -- Donald Knuth
On 'The Messenger,' just imagining playing the part of a soldier in that movie was kind of hard for me. And in 'Rampart,' the idea of playing a cop was even harder. It was hard to imagine myself as a cop. -- Woody Harrelson
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. -- Charles Horton Cooley
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things. -- Gary Gygax
My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vampire for dinner. -- Deborah Harkness
Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost. -- F. Sionil Jose
Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. -- Duane Chapman
That's the hard work of writing. The imagining. -- Jincy Willett
Worrying is imagining that which you don't want. -- Esther Hicks
Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change. -- Thomas a Kempis
Tonight will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining. -- Susan Cooper
I begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible. -- Sri Chinmoy
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. -- Annie Besant
If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you start by imagining it. -- Chris Guillebeau
when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while -- L.M. Montgomery
When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it? -- Yoko Ono
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation. -- Edward St Aubyn
Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. -- Lynne Truss
Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul. -- Rumi
For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss. -- Etgar Keret
Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you. -- Roger Ebert
Don't stop imagining. The day that you do is the day that you die. -- Youth Lagoon
I spend my life imagining you, it is not time to be a coward. -- Gustavo Cerati
if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one? -- Isabel Allende
The next time you are imagining the worst, look up the definition of imagination. -- Robert Lyman Baittie
Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. -- Joe Dunthorne
In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! -- William Shakespeare
I get really excited imagining what we can do in the future with broadband. -- Julius Genachowski
You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there. -- Henry Moore
There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing. -- Jules Verne
I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining. -- Zach Condon
If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now. -- Erwin McManus
You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being. -- Myles Munroe
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. -- Vernor Vinge
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. -- Andre Gide
We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them. -- John Green
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. -- Carl Jung
Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge. -- Samuel Richardson
Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it. -- John Wesley
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor. -- Douglas Coupland
There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible. -- Tony Robbins
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks. -- John C. Bogle
Fight your imperfections imagining that you are the worst, so you can perform as the best. -- Valentina
Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story. -- Nicholas Sparks
Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better. -- Claire LaZebnik
I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film. -- Mike Leigh
For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . . -- Aristotle
gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it. -- David Levithan
I'm not imagining me being the James Bond girl, because anyway I don't have the good maturation. -- Audrey Tautou
Sometimes the best part of my day is imagining what I'm gonna eat when I get off work. -- Anna Kendrick
Bella?" a different voice called from the distance. No! Please let me be imagining that horribly familiar voice. -- Stephenie Meyer
one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another -- John Keats
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. -- Philip Dormer Stanhope
Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell. -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. -- Philip Dormer Stanhope
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. -- Philip Dormer Stanhope
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming. -- Anthony Doerr
You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next. -- Lloyd Alexander
We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us. -- Pope John Paul II
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence. -- Charles William Eliot
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God. -- Sathya Sai Baba
I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way. -- Umberto Eco
It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant. -- Wyndham Lewis
I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them. -- Christopher Walken
I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job. -- Sara Sheridan
Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive. -- James Frain
Think about where does this stand in the experience continuum that you've been imagining, where the world's going to go. -- Hosain Rahman
Though he'd never know for sure what had happened to them, his mind was super talented at imagining the absolute worst. -- James Dashner
Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with. -- S. Kelley Harrell
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free." -- John Clellon Holmes
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true. -- Arthur Golden
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. -- bell hooks
Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining. -- Alan Moore
And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. -- John Green

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