Gloria Steinem Quotes

Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.

Only dreams give birth to change.

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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

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

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

Politics is about moving forward, looking forward.

You gotta imagine what's never been.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

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

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

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

True change takes place in the imagination.

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

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

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

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.