Northrop Frye Quotes
Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.
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I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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I always train 100 percent.
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I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I'm game.
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Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
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I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.
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Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
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Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.
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One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.
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Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
