Quotes About Imagination

Así sucede con los grandes personajes de la literatura, siempre encontramos un punto, una arista, un gesto donde podemos ser ellos. O al menos podemos ponernos en su lugar.

What is it we want for our daughter? Perhaps it's the ability to negotiate the world with an empathic imagination. The thing that brought both my husband and me to the gymnasium is the knowledge that though the deep-seated racist systems are reaffirmed and the evidence is there for us to see, I still want the world for my daughter that is more than this world, a world that has our daughter already in it.

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Consequently, our laws and attitudes have been straining against the devaluation of the black body. Despite good intentions, the associations of blackness with inarticulate, bestial criminality persist beneath the appearance of white civility. This assumption both frames and determines our individual interactions and experience as citizens.

because white men can't police their imagination black people are dying

I was allowing myself to have too much presence in his imagination,

By landscape we also mean memory...

Because white men can't police their imagination, black men are dying.

You can close the shutters on your life and dwell in a dreamlike existence, poor in deeds but effervescent in thought.

I'm in this relationship for the capes and castles.

I always wanted to be Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up. I can't fly, but swimming is the next best thing. It's harmony and balance. The water is my sky.

If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to the internal order of the poem itself. By taking the paraphrase as our point of stance, we misconceive the function of metaphor and meter. We demand logical coherences where they are sometimes irrelevant, and we fail frequently to see imaginative coherences on levels where they are highly relevant.

I was full of myth, which is to say full of an idea.

I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

For those of you who are about to embark on reading The Math Book from cover to cover, look for the connections, gaze in awe at the evolution of ideas, and sail on the shoreless sea of imagination.

As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be no skulls

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

buzz in his head was wonderfully liberating,

I know you read very widely. Almost like cultural foraging.

If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.

Si realmente quieren saber sobre el futuro, no le pregunten a un técnico, a un científico o a un físico. ¡No! No le pregunten a quien escriba en código. No, si quieren saber cómo va a ser la sociedad en 20 años, pregúntenle a la maestra de un jardín de niños.

A picture may be worth a thousand words but it needs a thousand words to describe a picture.

Life isn't what it is. It's what it can be.

Through the years, people of the world (young and old) build castles in the sands. Grains of different styles, shapes and sizes representing a common notion... beauty and harmony.

We do not stop dreaming until we cease believing in the power of imagination.