#magi

A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#ask #beat #because #best #better

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#explain #imagine #just #just one #multitude

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group. ↗

— James Cameron

#efforts #enterprise #ever #exactly #going

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#about #blooming #dreaming #enjoying #garden

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. ↗

— John le Carre

#casting #coming #creative #dressing #energy

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#get #i #i can #imagine #luxury

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#brand #censorship #experienced #forever #imagination

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#could #french #horrific #i #imaginative

There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#had #just #life #life is a #lots

I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love. ↗

— Clive Barker

#days-of-magis-nights-of-war #love #life