A Quote by Michael Ignatieff

Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

Michael Ignatieff

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Michael Ignatieff
Canadian - Politician
Born: May 12, 1947

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Maxwell Maltz

The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

Jacob Bronowski

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

M. Scott Peck

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

Anne Waldman

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

John Dufresne

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

Dennis Potter

If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them to do so.

Ken Keyes Jr.

Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.

Pope John Paul II

I don't ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don't think the straight country acts view me as a straight country act, either - but I certainly belong to them.

Chris Stapleton

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

William Arthur Ward

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Alfred North Whitehead

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.

Philippe Falardeau

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think its the same thing for a country.

Philippe Falardeau

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

Christopher Moore

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.

Richard Hugo

Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude; not to be allured by enticements is temperance; not to be diverted by pride is justice.

Francis Quarles

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