Carol Moseley Braun Quotes

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought

For me, I love doing what is said can't be done.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

You tell me what's impossible and I'll prove you wrong.

I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible.

Go ahead, do something impossible.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

The fact that it's hard to create an original British musical doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.