#magi

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #become #been #believe #black

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#assigns #beware #block #color #every

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy. ↗

— Frank Tallis

#imagination #insanity #isolation #mind #pathology

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. ↗

— Henry George

#boldest #century #clothed #could #dreamt

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#learn #really #see #things

I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting. ↗

— Jim Lampley

#charge #could #day #every #every day

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#band #bands #blues #dad #fargo

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#beings #creating #imagining #intelligent #people

Nature is a petrified magic city. ↗

— Novalis

#magic #nature #petrified

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#doing #drama #fox #i #imagine