He's a noted educator who has written a much called-on method book, "Effortless Mastery," which strives to liberate the imagination of rules-bound improvisers.
Unlike most of us, Collier even has a practical remedy for David Cameron as he makes a poor fist of trying to slow down inward migration from Eastern Europe without overtaking Angela Merkel's patience or the limited imagination of rules-bound Brussels apparatchiks.
In the marsh of my imagination the rules of logic and natural science are reborn as whimsy and invention".
Also personal was the chance it provided, after a series of films like "Bridge of Spies," "Lincoln" and "War Horse," to "return to the feeling of just being able to let my imagination overrule the rules of history.
When the squip fails Jeremy, leading to a wry denouement, it's a failure of rules, not imagination.
Commentators have suggested that Beckett was intrigued by chess because of the way it combined the free play of imagination with a rigid set of rules, presenting what the editors of the Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett call a "paradox of freedom and restriction".
"Marie Laveau rules the imagination of this city.
As for the past 20 years, what cricket book has got close to the rule-breaking imagination of The Damned United or the literary ambition of Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding?
His jail sentence for a crime of the imagination flouts the rule of law and is yet another blow to the dynamic literary and arts scene in Egypt".
Although a judgment of taste terminates in a reflective passion, rather than in a belief with a truth-value, taste employs operations of the imagination subject to rules internalized by the judging subject.
No one said you have to restrict your imagination, bend the rules of going over-board for a while.
