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想象力
Imagination
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
想象把人类从黑暗时代带到今天的文明状态。想象力使哥伦布发现了美洲。想象力使富兰克林发现了电。
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
但在我的想象中，这一切都发生了，我开始把老民歌和披头士的节拍混在一起，把它们带到格林威治村，为那里的人们演奏。
People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
人们想象演员得到了一切，而你却没有。所以事情来了，有时候有些事情我想做，但是不能开个会，或者去找其他演员。
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
每个人都有四种天赋——自我意识、良知、独立意志和创造性想象力。这些给了我们终极的人类自由……选择、回应和改变的能力。
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
在你看到一些东西之前，你必须想象它是可能的。证据就在你面前，但是如果你不能想象以前从未存在过的东西，那是不可能的。
Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable -- tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.
政治一直是可能性的艺术。如今，这往往是一种可能性的艺术——在没有更大远见、没有乐观和想象力的情况下，在边缘修修补补。
Imagine if we were capable of a form of empathy that lets us know one another by savoring the aura we leave on the things we have touched. We would go to a dump to get drunk on one another's souls.
想象一下，如果我们能够产生一种同理心，通过品味我们触摸过的东西上留下的光环，让我们彼此了解。我们会去垃圾场喝得酩酊大醉。
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
如果你不集中注意力，如果你的想象力不够活跃，你就会错过一些东西，你就会错过一些机会，让它变得尽可能地引人注目和令人毛骨悚然。
I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.
我一直很喜欢漫画书。当我还是个孩子的时候，我经常阅读关于其他世界的牛仔故事和历史漫画，这些未知的地方会让我脱离自我，帮助我发展想象力。
In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
在那个年代，不需要太多的想象力就能想出一些需要高超的歌词发展技巧的东西。你只是想到一个你可能经历过的经历，然后把它写下来。
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed
凡是新奇的或不寻常的东西，都能在想象中引起一种愉快，因为它能使心灵充满一种愉快的惊奇，满足它的好奇心，使它产生一种以前不曾有过的想法
Heaven is so far of the Mind That were the Mind dissolved— The Site—of it—by Architect Could not again be proved— 'Tis vast—as our Capacity— As fair—as our idea— To Him of adequate desire No further 'tis, than Here—
心有多远，天就有多远 那是心灵的溶解 由建筑师设计的场地 不能再被证明—— 这是广大的-作为我们的能力- 和我们的想法一样公平 给他足够的渴望 没有比这儿更远的地方了
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Music gives a soul to the universe wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
音乐给宇宙赋予灵魂，给心灵插上翅膀，给想象插上翅膀，给万物赋予生命。
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
如果你想展望未来，想象一下一只靴子永远踩在一个人的脸上。
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
如果一个人能用他的技巧和建设性的想象力去发现他能为一美元付出多少，而不是他能为一美元付出多少，他一定会成功。
My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
我最好的投资是我的想象力，因为它从来没有给我带来最大的回报!
You see things and you say, “Why?" But I dream things that never were and I say, "Why not?"
你看到一些东西，你会说，“为什么?”但我梦想着从未有过的事情，我说:“为什么不呢?”
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
如果你能想象，你就能实现它。如果你有梦想，你就能成为它。