Esther Perel Quotes
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Malachy McCourt -
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson -
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
Hari Kunzru -
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe -
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. Mencken -
If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
Yann Martel -
We are responsible for our incredulity.
Samantha Power -
I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
Yehuda Amichai -
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. Wells -
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
R. D. Laing
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Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.
Victoria Aveyard -
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin -
In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
Washed Out -
Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
Pat Conroy -
The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
Tammy Duckworth -
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination of the heart.
Salman Rushdie
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Without imagination, I don't think there's any progress.
Margot Lee Shetterly -
It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
Thomas Harris -
He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
Francis Chan -
People say I'm the life of the party'Cause I tell a joke or two.Although I might be laughing loud and hearty,Deep inside I'm blue.So take agood look at my face.You know my smile looks out of place.If you look closer, it's easy to traceThe tracks of my tears.
Smokey Robinson -
Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
Christopher Durang -
It's our imagination that's responsible for love, not the other person.
Esther Perel