Imagination Quotes

The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'

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"The future belongs to those capable of imagining it differently."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We must learn to think the unthinkable."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We must imagine otherwise, even when the present seems impossible."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"The present moment contains infinite possibilities if we know how to look."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"The future is queer because it has not happened yet."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"We must imagine futures that are otherwise."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination"
Law, John
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Law, John
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"The world is not waiting to be discovered; it is being made."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Imagination is the capacity to envision what is not yet."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The virtual plane contains infinite potentialities."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Stories are powerful technologies for making worlds."
Haraway, Donna
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"We need new languages for new worlds."
Haraway, Donna
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"Tentacular thinking reaches across boundaries and times."
Haraway, Donna
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"Imagination is the faculty that makes resistance possible."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Imagination is the only thing that cannot be colonized or controlled."
Ahmed, Sara
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"The impossible becomes possible through insistent imagining."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"The impossible is only impossible within the logic of the present."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Imagination is a political tool for envisioning alternative futures and ways of being."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Nomadic consciousness allows for movement across boundaries and categories."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The imagination is where resistance and transformation begin."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Imagination is the precursor to innovation and progress."
Law, John
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"Imagination is the only faculty that can transcend the limitations of experience."
Law, John
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"The virtual opens new possibilities for thinking and being"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Imagination is the first act of resistance against what is."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Imagination is the rebellion of the human spirit against the mundane."
Ahmed, Sara
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"The trouble with the cyborg is that it has no origin story in the Western sense—a great advantage."
Haraway, Donna
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"Imagination is the capacity to envision futures otherwise than those imposed upon us."
Haraway, Donna
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"The practice of speculative fabulation can help us imagine otherwise."
Haraway, Donna
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"The practice of speculation is not escapism but a political act of world-making."
Haraway, Donna