No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites, love affairs; there are the lives of people, Gods, entire galaxies. The simplest human action varies from one person and occasion to the next-how else would we recognize our friends only from their gait, posture, voice, and divine their changing moods? Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback. A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed.
I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.
I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not primitive (though based in part on fear), but knowing. It might even be possible to relearn a life of awe. And inhabit the landscape without violation. With the least violation.
I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high. . . and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes. )
When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.
There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.
Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that. . . awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.
Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves. . . politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. . . The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.
We begin to inhabit oppositional and rarely intersecting mental universes having to do with ideology and fact and non-fact and news and non-news.
A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song.
The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.
There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn't sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
To create the life you deserve, you have to go after it. The universe that you inhabit flows from you - you don't flow from it.
It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.
All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.