"It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug."
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"One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine."
"We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?"
"Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you."
"There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess."
"Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it."
"God always punishes us for what we can't imagine."
"Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change."
"We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine."
"You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine."
"Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant."
"Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner."
"Imagine others complexly."
"Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will."
"I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me."
"The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to spread his message. This is about as remarkable a claim as could be stated, and yet it is tossed out lightly. Christians seem to imagine that "God did it" is as plausible as the natural explanation that stories grow with the retelling. The Christian has the burden of proof, and it's an enormous burden given this enormous claim."
"I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of."
"It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject."
"Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible."
"I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am."