#nation

The alarming lack of ideas that is recognizable in all acts of culture, politics, organization of life, and the rest is explained by this, and the weakness of the modernist constructers of functionalist cities is only a particularly visible example of it. Intelligent specialists only ever have the intelligence to play the game of specialists: hence the fearful conformity and fundamental lack of imagination that make them admit that this or that product is useful, good, necessary. In fact, the root of the reigning lack of imagination cannot be understood if one does not have access to the imagination of lack--that is to conceiving what is absent, forbidden, and hidden, and yet possible, in modern life. ↗

— Tom McDonough

#imagination

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#identity #individuality #inspirational #life #self-determination

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. ↗

— Barack Obama

#helping-others #hope #initiative #just-do-it #proactivity

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster. ↗

— David A. Siegel

#disaster #obamacare #taxes #would

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

— Aesop

#ever #however #imagination #kindness #level

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#becoming #bottom #bottom line #break #day

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.' ↗