The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our spiritual condition.
Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love that can’t be fulfilled. And it gets harder to conceive of viable cultural or racial or sexual obstacles between people as we move forward progressively.
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn’t conceive itself as the centre of the world or the one country that’s going to save the world, so there’s a different tone that comes out in the way speculative fiction is done. That’s refreshing to read.
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
I can’t conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That’s why I decided to live in New York.
We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.
When you conceive the scene, you go, ‘That is scary, right?’ When you shoot it, a lot of times you’re not quite sure. Hopefully what you can shoot is what your conception is.
Writing that’s native to the web is different in ways that are crucial but subtle enough that you can miss them if you conceive of your audience as reading a printed product.
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
The next big project, you yourself have to conceive.
I didn’t think I could conceive.
When I first came to Wakefield Cathedral, I thought, ‘How does man conceive to build something like this?’ It’s a building that has transcended time over the centuries, and you appreciate the magnitude of humankind’s power and vision. When you’re inside, you feel as though the rest of the world doesn’t exist.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
I don’t want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.
A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.
There were no clippings of Ambedkar. The only thing I had was a two-and-a-half minute film which I saw countless times. Nobody knows how he walked, how he spoke, or how he behaved. I had to conceive all those things in my mind. I had to work a lot on the make-up, too.
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.
When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we’ve quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary.
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn’t for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.
I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don’t gravitate in that direction, but it is possible.
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.
I knew I didn’t want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to have done. I didn’t want to go to university. The only other thing I could do was paint, and so I went to art school because they couldn’t conceive of how one would be an actor.
As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.
The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.
The king is full of kindnesses toward me, and I love him tenderly. But it is pitiable to see his weakness for Madame du Barri, who is the silliest and most impertinent creature that it is possible to conceive.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
I can’t conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
Everything starts with a thought. Your thoughts become things, and anything that your mind can conceive, you can achieve.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Our best and brightest must conceive of themselves as stewards of our society and confront the critical challenges of our time. It’s the best bet for our society, for entrepreneurs, and for the investors who believe in them.
True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means – dynamic rhythm.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
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