Clay Shirky Quotes

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

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

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

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.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.