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Imagining Quotes

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We’re not the brain, we are a cancer on nature Picture Quote #1

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person Picture Quote #1

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities Picture Quote #1

All my life, I’ve felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, ‘I’m not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they’re coming over!’ Picture Quote #1

Posh’ is not really political. I didn’t want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in Picture Quote #1

You don’t know what’s coming for you in life, and you don’t know what’s around the corner. When you’re in a great deal of pain, you’re only imagining your world the way it is Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The modern Westerner, persuaded that he has a right to think for himself and imagining that he exercises this right, is unwilling to acknowledge that his every thought has been shaped by cultural and historical influences and that his opinions fit, like pieces of jigsaw puzzle, into a pattern which has nothing random about it Picture Quote #1

The entirety of ‘Bellocq’s Ophelia’ was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about Picture Quote #1

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people’s situations Picture Quote #1

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics Picture Quote #1

At a time when the joy of living is more painful than imagining the beauty of eternal life, we leave our life behind Picture Quote #1

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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives Picture Quote #1

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present Picture Quote #1

The difference between someone who is struggling and someone who has a fabulous life comes down to one thing -- love. Those who have a great life imagine what they love and want, and they feel the love of what’s they’re imagining more than other people Picture Quote #1

I remember being cast in the first Harry Potter film and being quite amused, because I was imagining that someone who’d been acting since they’d been crawling would be cast. The faith and trust that they’d put into everyone actually enabled you to gain confidence back, in the sense of feeling that sense of achievement, which is incredibly hard when you’re young Picture Quote #1

I listened to a lot of The Stooges when I was writing Oscillate, imagining our hero moving through his days naturally embodying the spirit of a real punk. I say real, because today’s idea of ‘punk as fashion accessory’ doesn’t even register with him, it’s more about the way he engages with the world Picture Quote #1

Once you’re imagining being the main character, and you’re having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over Picture Quote #1

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For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming Picture Quote #1

As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it’s going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke Picture Quote #1

As a journalist, I cannot help imagining with excitement a new era with a face-off between Hedi Slimane at YSL and Raf Simons at Dior - a magnificent battle of style and wills to echo the Armani/Versace, Gucci/Prada or even Chanel/Schiaparelli face-offs of earlier years. But I remind myself that this is not a game of chess Picture Quote #1

I’m a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you’re imagining something or if it’s real Picture Quote #1

He knew that he’d known her for less than a week, but now that she was gone he was continually probing his feelings for her, the way he might probe a sore tooth with his tongue, engaging her in imaginary conversations, imagining her saying such delightful things Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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One reason I’ve never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I’m reading about look like Picture Quote #1

It’s no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation Picture Quote #1

I think we acquire habits of mind when we’re little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out Picture Quote #1

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it Picture Quote #1

I won’t defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice Picture Quote #1

But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise Picture Quote #1

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Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We’re not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. (Imagining Quotes) You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person. (Imagining Quotes) Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities. (Imagining Quotes) All my life, I’ve felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, ‘I’m not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they’re coming over!’ (Imagining Quotes) Posh’ is not really political. I didn’t want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in. (Imagining Quotes) You don’t know what’s coming for you in life, and you don’t know what’s around the corner. When you’re in a great deal of pain, you’re only imagining your world the way it is. (Imagining Quotes) 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. (Imagining Quotes) The modern Westerner, persuaded that he has a right to think for himself and imagining that he exercises this right, is unwilling to acknowledge that his every thought has been shaped by cultural and historical influences and that his opinions fit, like pieces of jigsaw puzzle, into a pattern which has nothing random about it. (Imagining Quotes) The entirety of ‘Bellocq’s Ophelia’ was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about. (Imagining Quotes) The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people’s situations. (Imagining Quotes) Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics. (Imagining Quotes) At a time when the joy of living is more painful than imagining the beauty of eternal life, we leave our life behind. (Imagining Quotes) Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives. (Imagining Quotes) Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. (Imagining Quotes) The difference between someone who is struggling and someone who has a fabulous life comes down to one thing -- love. Those who have a great life imagine what they love and want, and they feel the love of what’s they’re imagining more than other people. (Imagining Quotes) I remember being cast in the first Harry Potter film and being quite amused, because I was imagining that someone who’d been acting since they’d been crawling would be cast. The faith and trust that they’d put into everyone actually enabled you to gain confidence back, in the sense of feeling that sense of achievement, which is incredibly hard when you’re young. (Imagining Quotes) I listened to a lot of The Stooges when I was writing Oscillate, imagining our hero moving through his days naturally embodying the spirit of a real punk. I say real, because today’s idea of ‘punk as fashion accessory’ doesn’t even register with him, it’s more about the way he engages with the world. (Imagining Quotes) Once you’re imagining being the main character, and you’re having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over. (Imagining Quotes) For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming. (Imagining Quotes) As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it’s going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke. (Imagining Quotes) As a journalist, I cannot help imagining with excitement a new era with a face-off between Hedi Slimane at YSL and Raf Simons at Dior - a magnificent battle of style and wills to echo the Armani/Versace, Gucci/Prada or even Chanel/Schiaparelli face-offs of earlier years. But I remind myself that this is not a game of chess. (Imagining Quotes) I’m a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you’re imagining something or if it’s real. (Imagining Quotes) He knew that he’d known her for less than a week, but now that she was gone he was continually probing his feelings for her, the way he might probe a sore tooth with his tongue, engaging her in imaginary conversations, imagining her saying such delightful things. (Imagining Quotes) 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. (Imagining Quotes) One reason I’ve never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I’m reading about look like. (Imagining Quotes) It’s no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation. (Imagining Quotes) I think we acquire habits of mind when we’re little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out. (Imagining Quotes) Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it. (Imagining Quotes) I won’t defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice. (Imagining Quotes) But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise. (Imagining Quotes)

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