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Imagination is more important than knowledge...Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

Albert Einstein

Don't dream your life, but live your dream

"don't dream your life, but live your dream"
— Mark Twain

Suspension of disbelief

Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief
See detailed explanation on Wikipedia. Following are excerpts:

Suspension of disbelief or "willing suspension of disbelief" is an aesthetic theory intended to characterize people's relationships to art. It was coined by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1817. It refers to the willingness of a person to accept as true the premises of a work of fiction, even if they are fantastic or impossible. It also refers to the willingness of the audience to overlook the limitations of a medium, so that these do not interfere with the acceptance of those premises. According to the theory, suspension of disbelief is a quid pro quo: the audience tacitly agrees to provisionally suspend their judgment in exchange for the promise of entertainment. These fictional premises may also lend to the engagement of the mind and perhaps proposition of thoughts, ideas, art and
perhaps theories.

Examples in modern forms of entertainment: According to the theory, suspension of disbelief is an essential ingredient in the enjoyment of many B-grade science fiction films and television series such as the early series of Doctor Who, where the audience willingly ignores low-budget "cheesy" props and occasional plot holes, in order to fully engage with the enjoyable story — which may be the more so for those additions to its inherent outrageousness.

Suspension of disbelief is also supposed to be essential for the enjoyment of many movies and TV shows involving complex stunts, special effects, and seemingly "unrealistic" plots, characterizations, etc. The theory professes to explain why action movie fans are willing to accept the idea that the good guy can get away with shooting guns in public places, or never running out of ammunition, or that cars will explode with a well-placed shot to the gas tank.

The phrase seemed to have attained renewed use and favor after being used by Senator Hillary Clinton in a Senate hearing where she told General Petraeus that his progress report on Iraq required "a willing suspension of disbelief"

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire ~Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies ~Aristotle

Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods and services. What could be scarcer or more precious than love?

Lessons in Love, by Way of Economics
By BEN STEIN
Published: July 13, 2008
As my fine professor of economics at Columbia, C. Lowell Harriss (who just celebrated his 96th birthday) used to tell us, economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods and services. What could be scarcer or more precious than love? It is rare, hard to come by and often fragile.

Irrational exuberance

"Irrational exuberance" is a phrase used by former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan in a speech given during the stock market boom of the 1990s.
Greenspan's comment was made in December 1996 (emphasis added in excerpt):

The presence of the short comment—not repeated by Greenspan since—within a rather dry and complex speech would not normally have been so memorable; however, it was followed by immediate slumps in stock markets worldwide, provoking a strong reaction in financial circles and making its way into colloquial speech. Greenspan's comment was well remembered, although few heeded the "warning."

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a web site is a window into hearts and minds of marketplace

Jim Sterne from Target Marketing & Chairman of Web Analytics Association, declared that a web site is a window into hearts and minds of marketplace

quiet eloquence of his hard work

"He never graduated from high school, but he taught me more by the quiet eloquence of his hard work, his simple decency, his intense loyalty, he taught me the true lessons of life," Tim Russert later said of his father.

rippling emotional aftermath in their lives

"On a micro level, it’s about a couple and their young son living in Lower Manhattan when the planes hit, and about the event’s rippling emotional aftermath in their lives"

Source: NYT Book Review, The Ashes By DWIGHT GARNER, May 18, 2008, Review of the book NETHERLAND By Joseph O’Neill