#imaginations

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#imaginations #manipulative #people #spark #trying

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations. ↗

— Steve Allen

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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! ↗

— Jane Austen

#dear #forms #how #imaginations #mistaken

He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think, but not those who watch you as you explore the dreams! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#big-dreams #creator #dream #dream-big #dreaming

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. ↗

— Francis Wright

#errors #establishing #facts #imaginations #instead

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it. ↗

— Francis Wright

#actions #belief #consequences #deduce #first

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#facts #imaginations #people #society #solid

The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#ancient #drama #hidden #imaginations #into

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#complete #current #did #imaginations #mechanics