Pete Seeger Quotes

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

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

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

Imagination - that's the future for us.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

Without imagination, I don't think there's any progress.

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.

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.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

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.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.