Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Create your future from your future not your past.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

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

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

True change takes place in the imagination.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

I think the value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear. I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. That is not the -- I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself as in a role of greater importance than I would seem to be ordinarily.