"At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different"

-- Roberto Unger

#Future Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Vision Quotes

“But I have an African or Indian approach to what I find. I like to make use of everything. I can't bear to throw things away - a nice wine bottle, a nice box. Sometimes I feel like a wizard in Toytown, transforming a bunch of carrots into pomegranates.”
“To catch a ball, I'd commit suicide.”
“Literature and the other arts play with pattern - our brains understand our world by recognizing patterns - and with possibility. The arts harness our sharpest senses, sight and sound, and our richest ways of understanding, in language and narrative. They were our first schools before schools were ever invented. They develop our imaginations, extend our possibilities, and deepen what we can all share.”
“Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.”
“I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.”
“There are more than a few messages from lonely people wondering why they never find themselves described...I illustrated one, "How come no one ever misses me?" They kill me, those.”
“Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
“Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.”

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