Imaginability Quotes & Sayings

One must have sensitivity of the princess and endurance of the whore. — Anna Dymna

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. — Elbert Hubbard

Dread = Uncontrollability + Unfamiliarity + Imaginability + Suffering + Scale of Destruction + Unfairness — Amanda Ripley

Better to be tentative than to be recklessly sure- to be an apprentice at sixty, than to present oneself as a doctor at ten. — Michel De Montaigne

Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome — Steven Erikson

The evil genius of terrorism is that that maximizes unfamiliarity, imaginability, suffering, scale of destruction, unfairness. It's really important to understand why terrorism is so frightening because it is a psychological war and until you understand it and try to reduce the dread, until then you become like a force multiplier for the terrorists inadvertently because you'll tend to overreact to terrorist attacks because the dread factor is so high. — Amanda Ripley

Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor. — Carmelo Anthony

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,
I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood
Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's,
Chief lord and regent of perpetual night! — Christopher Marlowe

I think Americans is a very special nation that was created so that people could be free. And they could be free to believe what they wanted. They could be free to work as hard as they wanted, knowing that their labor would accrue to them and to their family, that there wouldn't be a lot of people impinging upon their freedom and telling them what they had to do, and that it would be a nation that was representative of the people, and that it would have a government that was representative of the people rather than one that tried to rule the people. — Benjamin Carson

To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite. — Mother Teresa

A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me. — Abigail Breslin

Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions. — Gary Weiss

My music should evoke a feeling; whether it's a feeling in your stomach, goosebumps, whatever. When you don't get a feeling then there's a problem. — Rahki

Those who look on other people's misery with indifference are the most
miserable of all. — Paulo Coelho

Design is the last great competitive advantage. — Seth Godin

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so. — Barney Frank

By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The dread equation is a simplification, but it's a way to explain why we fear something so much when it is so unlikely. Part of it is the lack of control. That's why we're more scared of plane crashes than car crashes even though we know rationally which is more dangerous. — Amanda Ripley

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. — Quentin Crisp