“I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”
Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer
“There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.”
Lecture, Scientology and Effective Knowledge (15 July 1957).
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Steve Maraboli (1975)
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934) Hungarian American psychologist
Source: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”
Sharon Kay Penman (1945) American historical novelist
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) Austrian physicist
"The Oneness of Mind", as translated in Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (1984) edited by Ken Wilber
Context: Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology — we are quite unable to imagine the contrary...
“I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.”
Anne Fadiman (1953) American essayist, journalist and magazine editor
Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.”
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change