Sentences with phrase «own imagination»

Perhaps most remarkable is the collective imagination of students across the United States, who dared to take on a challenge that their parents, aunts, and uncles had all but abandoned: stopping the scourge of gun violence.

«You still need just as much of their energy and imagination, but they don't need as much of your money.

But as the good doctor tells Fortune's Erika Fry, there is another infectious disease that's even more dangerous to humanity — and that's the «failure of imagination.»

It's an insight that, through a kaleidoscope of different achievements and life experiences, resurfaces many times in this year's list — our fifth annual roster of imagination - embracing game changers, paradigm shifters, and unsung champions across multiple fields of endeavor.

Children have powerful imaginations and enough curiosity and knowledge to put ideas together in a fascinating way.

Visualization, or what Shakti Gowain calls «Creative visualization» in her book of the same title, is a technique in creating what you want from life using the power of imagination.

I have to say that I felt that George's group of six films had more innovative visual imagination and this film was more of a retrenchment to things you had seen before and characters you had seen before.

I DO N'T think it is my imagination, but there appears to be a rash of multi-level marketing (MLM) opportunities surfacing in Perth.

They have been made with imagination, they are in themselves beautiful, and they are part, good or bad, of America — we have all seen this West Virginia coal town, this cotton wagon in Mississippi, this woodshed in Vermont.

Once you've done the work to build a following, it only takes imagination to dream up new ways to capitalize.

The charismatic and ever - confident giver of rousing speeches of our imagination and Hollywood central casting is nothing like the empathetic, humble, and intellectually curious reality that it really takes to inspire a team.

Though she had designs on being a doctor and got her master's in medical sciences, by the time she was grown up, those worksites, and that company, had captured her imagination.

Editor's note: This tour of small businesses across the country highlights the imagination, diversity, and resilience of American enterprise.

«The opportunities are enormous, and they're limited only by our imagination and the ability to execute on it.»

Six years ago, Nintendo's Wii was in a position that every hardware company dreamed of — a game system that not only captured the imagination of the core player but also was widely and warmly embraced by the mass audience.

As Cloninger says, «To succeed, you want to be able to regulate your impulses while also having the imagination to see what the future would be like if you tried something new.»

On the eve of his second federal budget, Finance Minister Bill Morneau doesn't loom large in the public imagination.

This is an imagination exercise and the more you do it, the better you'll get at it.

Employees need to execute these imaginations and practice seeing them repeatedly.

Take a look at J.K. Rowling — using creativity and imagination, she created a successful franchise full of witches and wizards.

It may not be such a stretch of the imagination to think that the world will embrace the idea of eating bugs.

It is one without too much economic literature behind it (I am not well read by any stretch of the most generous imagination) and almost no political doctrine.

Stories on the other hand, fire up people's imaginations, and give them hope and a cause to strive towards.

• Winklevoss Twins Say Bitcoin Will Hit $ 320,000 and Non-Believers Suffer a «Failure of Imagination» (by David Meyer)

Much like serving as a war correspondent, «starting a business requires every bit of imagination, and creativity, and energy, and gumption that you've got,» Hindy says.

But in the modern world, where most risks we take aren't life - threatening, that overactive imagination can do more harm than good.

With each passing year it seems yet one more gadget previously confined to the imagination of sci - fi movies becomes a real product you can buy in a store.

The canard that the stock market has become divorced from reality, though, has recently been bubbling up in the fevered Doomer imagination in multiple places and hasn't been given a good spanking, so I guess it's time for a little intellectual discipline.

It's hard to keep feeding the imagination all on your own.»

Even more vital to persuasion than Logos, says Aristotle, is Pathos, which includes the right - brain activities of emotions, images, stories, examples, empathy, humor, imagination, color, sounds, touch, and rapport, Price says.

«Donald Trump's approach to politics has been something that has gripped the imagination of people around the world.»

You need an environment that puts you into a peak state, where your imagination is able to run wild.

Creating content that sparks their interest and captures their imagination will translate into shares.

More often than not, the habituated person will forget what they've seen and never take the action that marketers are pouring time, creativity and imagination into trying to make happen.

On receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University, Rowling gave a heartfelt commencement speech titled «The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination».

Comprehensive new research from scientists at Harvard, Yale, Northeastern, and the University of Maryland shows we have a clear tendency to assign certain characteristics to others based on how much (or how little) they leave to the imagination (via Wired).

«It's much easier to sell people on an idea in Canada,» he says, adding that top - notch developers here are more likely to embrace the challenge of an embryonic project that requires as much technical wizardry as imagination.

I may be lacking in imagination, but I'm not sure what practical use Flyover brings to the table.

«It was obvious to us growing up how incredibly exciting it was,» he said, «not just that you had a new device, but the sense that what you could do was limited only by your imagination.»

Such situations are admittedly pretty rare, but CES and its exhibitors never fail to wow me or spark my imagination.

The days when Herbie the Love Bug and camper vans filled with hippies and surfers had captured the public's imagination were long gone.

Are reasoning and imagination — the twin faculties that most of us associate with innovation — enough for Ray Kurzweil to know which of the formulas that he's dreamed up based on past technological trends will lead to the best mathematical models for predicting future trends?

So we asked our agency president, Ted Birkhahn, to dress as Thomas Edison (GE's founder) and deliver an «Imagination Manifesto» right in the CMO's conference room.

This little game of imagination will offer you valuable information on how they see the world, interpret events, and create expectations of others.

I had no clue, and I prefer to have as little vision and imagination as possible.

Mastering the ability to reframe problems is an important tool for increasing your imagination because it unlocks a vast array of solutions,» she writes.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

In the end, a great presentation will come down to the speaker's ability to capture the audience's imagination — and keep their attention.

Headquarters: San Francisco Cofounder and CEO: Daniel Grossman, age 43 Business: Designer / manufacturer of nonsexist, nonviolent, imagination - inspiring toys Founded: 1993 2000 revenues: $ 30 million Became profitable: 1996 Number of employees: 40, including 10 in Hong Kong

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.