Posts Tagged ‘Imagination’

January 18th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, F, Scientist No Comments »

Felix Bloch

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.
Felix Bloch

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
Felix Bloch

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
Felix Bloch

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
Felix Bloch

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
Felix Bloch

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
Felix Bloch

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
Felix Bloch

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!
Felix Bloch

December 6th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, C, Psychologist No Comments »

Claude Bernard

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
Claude Bernard

Science does not permit exceptions.
Claude Bernard

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
Claude Bernard

Art is I; science is we.
Claude Bernard

Experimentation is an active science.
Claude Bernard

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
Claude Bernard

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
Claude Bernard

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
Claude Bernard

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Claude Bernard

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
Claude Bernard

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Claude Bernard

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
Claude Bernard

The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
Claude Bernard

December 5th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, G, Philosopher No Comments »

George Berkeley

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
George Berkeley

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
George Berkeley

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth – in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world – have not any subsistence without a mind.
George Berkeley

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
George Berkeley

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
George Berkeley

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
George Berkeley

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
George Berkeley

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
George Berkeley

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
George Berkeley

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.
George Berkeley

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
George Berkeley

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
George Berkeley

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
George Berkeley

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
George Berkeley

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
George Berkeley

April 23rd, 2011 Author Types, Authors, L, Musician No Comments »

Les Baxter

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
Les Baxter

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
Les Baxter

I write emotional music.
Les Baxter

I’m not an intellectual composer.
Les Baxter

I’ve been down there 6 times and there’s nothing like Brazilian percussion.
Les Baxter

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
Les Baxter

Well, that’s the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.
Les Baxter

I don’t try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.
Les Baxter

I love doing concert music.
Les Baxter

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.
Les Baxter

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
Les Baxter

Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.
Les Baxter

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
Les Baxter

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.
Les Baxter

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.
Les Baxter

I’ve never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.
Les Baxter

April 23rd, 2011 Author, Author Types, Authors, L No Comments »

L. Frank Baum

I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
L. Frank Baum

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.
L. Frank Baum

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
L. Frank Baum

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
L. Frank Baum

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
L. Frank Baum

I can’t give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
L. Frank Baum

April 8th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Journalist, L No Comments »

Luigi Barzini

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman’s octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
Luigi Barzini

To put up a show is to face life’s injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
Luigi Barzini

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.
Luigi Barzini

March 31st, 2011 Author Types, Authors, C, Writer No Comments »

Clive Barker

Gather experience… Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.
Clive Barker

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else – but I’m absolutely nothing special.
Clive Barker

You can plan to be brave – it’s even better if you just try to be brave.
Clive Barker

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one’s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.
Clive Barker

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
Clive Barker

I’m a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die – it’s a major offence.
Clive Barker

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
Clive Barker

What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.
Clive Barker

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
Clive Barker

February 8th, 2011 Actor, Author Types, Authors, L No Comments »

Leslie Banks

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.
Leslie Banks

I look at life, the experiences I’ve had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.
Leslie Banks

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me – they would not hear no for an answer.
Leslie Banks

That has always been it for me: family first.
Leslie Banks

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
Leslie Banks

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author… I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
Leslie Banks

December 21st, 2010 Author Types, Authors, F, Philosopher No Comments »

Francis Bacon

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis Bacon

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon

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

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

Opportunity makes a thief.
Francis Bacon

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Francis Bacon

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon

It is natural to die as to be born.
Francis Bacon

The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis Bacon

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Francis Bacon

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon

December 8th, 2010 Author Types, Authors, P, Poet No Comments »

Philip James Bailey

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
Philip James Bailey

Music tells no truths.
Philip James Bailey

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Philip James Bailey

The long days are no happier than the short ones.
Philip James Bailey

What men call accident is God’s own part.
Philip James Bailey

Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s art.
Philip James Bailey

Envy’s a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
Philip James Bailey

Imagination is the air of mind.
Philip James Bailey

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Philip James Bailey

Kindness is wisdom.
Philip James Bailey

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
Philip James Bailey

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey

The sole equality on earth is death.
Philip James Bailey

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Philip James Bailey

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
Philip James Bailey

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Philip James Bailey