Umberto Eco Quotes

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

I like to change people's sense of what's possible.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

See things not as they are but as they might be.

I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

Obama stands as a signal that this nation will continue to redefine what it means to push beyond the borders of what's possible.

You know, you have to start with hope...you don't get anywhere in this country without hope. So it's a necessity. What Barack says is that people have to understand hope isn't just blind optimism. It isn't passive. It isn't just sitting there waiting for things to get better. Hope is the vision that you have to have. It's the inspiration that moves people into action...There are more people engaged in this political process in this year than we've seen in my lifetime. And it is all because of hope because people believe in the possibility of something unseen.

The world is begging for you to lead.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.

" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.

We live in a world where joy is possible, love is possible, happiness is possible; where all things are possible, if we're willing to take the time, take a chance, take a breath and step off the edge of everything that is for the sake of everything that might be.

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.