We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads. But to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both. | |
— Carl Sagan | |
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2021 | Broaden The Circle |
The Phone Keeps Ringing | |
2020 | Stay Gentle |
2019 | Immoral #45 |
2018 | From My Soapbox |
2017 | The Single Most Effective Thing For Health |
2016 | A Trumpet Solo |
2015 | Potential Is A Heavy Burden |
2014 | Fear Not, Weep Not |
2013 | Half Way There |
2012 | Sacrificed Any Lately? |
2011 | The Value Of One’s Character |
2010 | Intervals |
On Being Human | |
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Posts Tagged ‘Imagination’
We Need Both
Posted in Economics, Environment, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Carl Sagan, Imagination, Philosophy, Quotes, Skepticism, Truth on June 30, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Let Yourself Soar In 2022
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Imagination, Muhammad Ali, Philosophy, Quotes, Wings on December 30, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The man with no imagination has no wings. | |
― Muhammad Ali | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | The Most Dynamic Link |
Looking Forward To 2021 | |
2019 | A Proud Assertion |
2018 | Ask #45 About Anything |
2017 | Playing Makes Sense |
2016 | And Fathers, Sons |
2015 | My Suspect Confidence |
2014 | Disguised Blessings |
2013 | Be |
2012 | The Only Way to Win |
2011 | Honest Writing |
If You’re A Lucky 11 Year Old
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged An Awesome Question, Consciousness, Imagination, Limitations, Luck, Nicholas Thompson, Obligations, Philosophy, Quotes, Wired Magazine on March 27, 2021| 2 Comments »
From our first moments of consciousness up through childhood, the things we think we might be able to do with our lives broaden and broaden. And then, at some point around adolescence, they start to narrow. Our imaginations shrink, our obligations grow, we charge ahead on certain roads and avoid the ones less traveled. Eleven is wonderful. You’re aware of the world and its limitations, but if you’re lucky your imagination hasn’t been crimped yet. Really, maybe, you can do anything. | |
— Nicholas Thompson | |
From his editorial: “An Awesome Question“ | |
Appearing in: Wired Magazine, dtd: Apr 2020 | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Democratic Aspiration |
2019 | Soul Before Will |
2018 | Small Things |
2017 | Clear And Warm To Me |
2016 | Ripple |
2015 | Amazing Or Full Of Wonder? |
2014 | Are You Confused? |
2013 | But The Odds Are Against It |
2012 | Far Better Off With Books |
2011 | Timid And Fainthearted |
Meet Unexpected Success
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Confidence, Dreams, Endeavors, Henry David Thoreau, Imagination, Life, Philosophy, Quotes, Success, Time on December 19, 2020| Leave a Comment »
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with the success unexpected in common hours. | |
— Henry David Thoreau | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Curing With Salt |
2018 | A Politician With Skills |
And / Or A Genuine Smile | |
2017 | A Lone, Brave Voice… |
2016 | Job Security |
2015 | For I Have Always Lived Violently |
2014 | We Stand !! (I Stand With George) |
Additional Requirements | |
2013 | In The Present Day |
2012 | Feeling It |
2011 | Stretching Science |
Walkin’ In The Rain With The One I Love
Posted in General Comments, Included Video, Lyrics, Quotes, Videos, tagged Alabama Rain - song lyrics, Alabama Rain -- music video, Daydreams, Forrest Gump, Imagination, Included Video, Jim Croce, Songs About Rain, YouTube on September 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Alabama Rain |
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Favorite Line(s): | |
Drive in movies, | |
Friday nights | |
Drinkin’ beer and laughin’ | |
Somehow things were always right | |
I just don’t know what happened | |
But now and then I find myself | |
Thinkin’ of the days | |
When we were walkin’ in | |
The Alabama Rain | |
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Long before I ever saw “Forrest Gump“, I used to listen to this song and day dream about walking down a tree-lined / branch-covered path on a hot, humid afternoon holding my wife’s / girl friend’s hand; a sudden down-pour would drench us to the bone, but even after it stopped, the heat / humidity would still leave the walk home comfortable. Wet, but comfortable. I’ve never visited Alabama, but that’s how I’ve always thought of it. Maybe, someday I’ll get a chance to find out… LoL! I suppose if anybody from Alabama reads this they’ll tell me I’m crazy and it’s not like my imagination at all. | |
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2019 | Silly Pooh Bear |
Dominoes Or Jenga? | |
2018 | Very Few |
2017 | Or The Candidate Who… |
2016 | The Happiest People |
2015 | Jumping Into The Dark |
2014 | I Would Be Sillier |
2013 | It Keeps Happening Anyway |
2012 | Take Time |
2011 | A Mother’s Lesson |
2010 | 3rd Pair – Shoe Review (DOA and Final) |
Imagine That!
Posted in Quotes, tagged ‘Foreword’ to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Imagination, Quotes, Terry Pratchett on August 25, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. | |
–– Terry Pratchett | |
From: ‘Foreword’ to “The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy” (1998) | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Imagine If… |
2018 | How Many Now? |
Day 29: Tied (By The Time You Read This) | |
2017 | Earn The Gift |
2016 | Still Loud |
2015 | Surprise! No Evidence |
2014 | Real Ideals |
2013 | A Happiness Weapon |
2012 | An Eagle Has Departed |
Ummm | |
And In My Prayers | |
2011 | Welcome Doubt |
2010 | Talk, Talk, Talk… |
Every Day At Least | |
Democratic Suicide | |
Pleasurable Reading | |
Loose Joy | |
Do, Er, Write – Whatever | |
This Glorious Company | |
Relax With A Good Book | |
Neither Vice Nor Weakness | |
That’s Rich! | |
Man Will Prevail!!! | |
Frankly Speaking to Arizona | |
Brother By Another Mother | |
Imagine Existence
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Destiny, Imagination, Navarre Scott Momaday, Philosophy, Quotes, Tragedy on May 10, 2020| Leave a Comment »
We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined. | |
— Navarre Scott Momaday | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Voices Of The Past |
2018 | Sunrises, Rainbows And Newborn Babies |
2017 | Untold Agony |
2016 | Just Borrowed |
2015 | Warning |
2014 | Always More Productive |
2013 | Is Not |
2012 | Loosely Translated |
2011 | Your Opinions Are Not My Facts |
Imagine If…
Posted in Quotes, tagged Imagination, Questions, Quotes, Ralph Gerard, Reason on August 25, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. | |
— Ralph Gerard | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | How Many Now? |
Day 29: Tied (By The Time You Read This) | |
2017 | Earn The Gift |
2016 | Still Loud |
2015 | Surprise! No Evidence |
2014 | Real Ideals |
2013 | A Happiness Weapon |
2012 | An Eagle Has Departed |
Ummm | |
And In My Prayers | |
2011 | Welcome Doubt |
2010 | Talk, Talk, Talk… |
Every Day At Least | |
Democratic Suicide | |
Pleasurable Reading | |
Loose Joy | |
Do, Er, Write – Whatever | |
This Glorious Company | |
Relax With A Good Book | |
Neither Vice Nor Weakness | |
That’s Rich! | |
Man Will Prevail!!! | |
Frankly Speaking to Arizona | |
Brother By Another Mother | |
And Flights Of Fancy
Posted in Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Debt, Imagination, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Science on October 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Science does not know its debt to imagination. | |
— Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | By Their Acts Thy Shall Know Them |
2016 | Remembering |
2015 | One |
2014 | Sure Experiments And Demonstrated Arguments |
2013 | Irrational Complacency |
2012 | Why Criticize? |
Giants Sweep 2012 World Series With Game 4 Win (4 To 3)!!! | |
2011 | Saying Just Enough |
2010 | Giants Win Game 2 Shutout of Rangers – 9 to 0!!! |
Relative Imagination
Posted in Education, Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Albert Einstein, Imagination, Knowledge, Philosophy, Quotes, Understanding on September 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Thank You, Senator McCain (So Far Anyway) |
2016 | What About Friends? |
2015 | It Tastes Good To Me |
2014 | Others’ Footsteps |
The Not-So-Modern Samurai | |
2013 | Doin’ |
2012 | A Lover |
2011 | What Have We Found Here |
Words | |
Worry (x2)
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Experience, Imagination, Mark Twain, Philosophy, Quotes, Walt Disney, Worry on September 9, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Worry is a waste of imagination. | |
— Walt Disney | |
Most of my life’s worst experiences never actually happened. | |
— Mark Twain | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Still Working |
Gold In The Morning Sun | |
2016 | Power Inside |
2015 | Sometimes I Feel Small |
2014 | It Slipped Away |
2013 | Corollary |
2012 | Working Retired |
2011 | The Web Is Not Authoritative! (Really?) |
Tic-Toc
Posted in Humor, Quotes, Writing, tagged Franklin Pierce Adams, Humor, Imagination, Procrastination, Quotes, Time, Writing on June 11, 2018| 1 Comment »
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. | |
— Franklin Pierce Adams | |
[Maybe procrastination has a little bit to do with it, too. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Explaining Working Class Support For Donald |
2016 | Not In My Experience |
2015 | Effort |
2014 | Honest Wants |
2013 | Faith, n. |
2012 | Surprise Me |
2011 | Confused With Truth |
Imagining Humor
Posted in Humor, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Francis Bacon, Humor, Imagination, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes on September 1, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. | |
— Francis Bacon | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | So Go On And Deal With It |
2015 | From A Letter To A Friend |
2014 | Your Part (Here) |
2013 | Complements |
2012 | Sound And Light |
2011 | Two Politicians Visit A Farm… |
2010 | Labor Day And Honorable Men |
Reliable Vision
Posted in Quotes, tagged Imagination, Mark Twain, Quotes, Vision on July 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. | |
— Mark Twain | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Still Walking |
2015 | Steps |
2014 | To Be Greatly Good |
2013 | Limited Capacity |
2012 | Two Ear Ticklers |
Justification | |
2011 | To Avail The Nation |
Beyond Thar Be Dragons
Posted in General Comments, Included Video, Lyrics, Music and Concerts, Quotes, Song Lyrics And Videos By Others, Videos, tagged childhood memories, Comments, Favorite Lines, Honah Lee, Imagination, Included Video, Jackie Paper, Peter Paul And Mary, Puff The Magic Dragon -- music video, Quotes, YouTube on February 12, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Puff The Magic Dragon
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