While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.
I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?
The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
I never thought I could model, and I certainly never thought about acting. It's just something that happened to me.
History does not disclose to us its alternatives.
Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
What you know not now you will know hereafter.
