Jackie Kay (1961) Poet and novelist
On correlating motherhood with writing in “Jackie Kay: Interview” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7800799/Jackie-Kay-Interview.html in The Telegraph (2010 Jun 5)
“Everyone has imaginary ideas of himself as being this or that sort of person. And you can be sure that the images are highly complimentary! But since they are purely imaginary, they are highly sensitive to assault by reality.”
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Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999) American politician
as quoted in Directing the Film, Ed Sherman, 1976.
“...for one cannot enter an image unless one makes oneself imaginary”
Jean Paul Sartre book Saint Genet
Source: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p. 297
Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 16
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) German mathematician and philosopher
Ce miracle de l'Analyse, prodige du monde des idées, objet presque amphibie entre l'Être et le Non-être, que nous appelons racine imaginaire.
Quoted in Singularités : individus et relations dans le système de Leibniz (2003) by Christiane Frémont
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Source: Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1971 - 1980, Comment on deviant Dali, les aveux inavouables de Salvador Dali, p. unknown
“A person can be highly educated, professionally successful and financially illiterate.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Mordechai Ben-Ari (1948) Israeli computer scientist
Source: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 3, “Words Scientists Don’t Use: At Least Not the Way You Do” (p. 56)
