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Quotes: Imagination and Ideas

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“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo

“The visionary is the only realist.” — Federico Fellini

“It is not naïve or a cliché to say that the creative mind holds the answers to all the world’s problems. It is merely a fact. And so, you should balance your desire to use your creativity with a sense of responsibility. Please take yourself and your creative pursuits seriously. Your ideas must be treated with respect because their importance truly does extend beyond your own interests. Every living person benefits from a world that is enriched with ideas made whole—ideas that are made to happen through your passion, commitment, self-awareness, and informed pursuit.” —Scott Belsky

“Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change. ” — Paul Rogat Loeb, in The Impossible Will Take a Little While

“The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.” —Albert Einstein

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed – we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”  — Henry David Thoreau

 

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