Our cultural imagination about compassion has been deadened by idealistic images.

Our imagination might shrink our hearts might dwindle, and our humanness might wither if we stay for too long inside our cultural cocoons.

Imagination

But well before my imagination was my vocation, my imagination saved my life.

It's just your imagination.

It's just your imagination.

It's just your imagination.

It's only your imagination.

Janet Echelman Taking imagination seriously

It is just your imagination.

So we started the Imagination Foundation.

It was deep in my imagination.

Jay Walker's library of human imagination

So it s a leap of imagination.

This book will awaken your imagination.

But let us use our imagination.

Listening to stories widens the imagination telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics.

They're unique facets of the human imagination.

There the alternative just boggles the imagination.

This is the Library of Human Imagination.

And second of all, it requires imagination.

Now great imagination, thank you very much.

This story is about taking imagination seriously.

Imagination is the root of all civilization.

Imagination affects every part of our lives.

So this piece is about a negative imagination.

So that's an investigation of the negative imagination.

But it will also lay waste to imagination.

Andrew Bird's one man orchestra of the imagination

Imagination has been decoupled from the old constraints.

Now, let your imagination go upward into space.

Where do we get this spark of imagination?

This is beyond the scope of my imagination.

And one must admire the imagination of John Locke.

It frees us from the constraints of our imagination.

What are the ingredients? Imagination, playfulness, novelty, curiosity, mystery.

And I wanted to let my imagination run wild.

And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

This world was actually extracted from the player's imagination.

Doctors are no different from laypersons in drawing on personal and cultural resources involving imagination, responsibility, sensibility, insight, and communication to accomplish their care giving. And what they engage in is an amalgam of ethical, aesthetic, religious, and practical action.

But somehow what strikes everybody's imagination or lots of people's imagination somehow from that original Big Bang we have this beautiful world that we live in today.

You know, culture was born of the imagination, and the imagination the imagination as we know it came into being when our species descended from our progenitor, Homo erectus, and, infused with consciousness, began a journey that would carry it to every corner of the habitable world.

So I use my imagination as my full time job.

What TED celebrates is the gift of the human imagination.

And that s really what discovery and imagination is all about.