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  • Charles M. Schwab on hope

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    “A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.” -Charles M. Schwab

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  • Pete Rozelle on hope

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    “I’m not claiming that football is the nation’s salvation in this area, but it’s one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can’t be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.” -Pete Rozelle

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  • Michael C. Hall on hope

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    “I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as ‘David’. But I wouldn’t really want to work with those people, you know?” -Michael C. Hall

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  • Robert Creeley on hope

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    “Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it’s so grimly brutal!” -Robert Creeley

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  • Graham Joyce on hope

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    “Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny – or not so tiny – leap of the imagination is made.” -Graham Joyce

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  • Matthew Bourne on hope

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    “People know that they’re going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it’s in. It’s dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination – it’s not straight forward.” -Matthew Bourne

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  • Percival Lowell on hope

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    “Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.” -Percival Lowell

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  • Leigh Hunt on hope

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    “There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.” -Leigh Hunt

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  • Ben Lovett on hope

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    “I guess something that I’ve noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination – maybe a bit more obscure perhaps – a bit more shy.” -Ben Lovett

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  • Jill Clayburgh on hope

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    “There’s no environment. Use your imagination. There’s no fourth wall, whether it’s the first time you’ve told this story about her life, or the sixth time.” -Jill Clayburgh

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  • Andre Dubus III on hope

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    “My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.” -Andre Dubus III

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  • Zac Posen on hope

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    “There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers – Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.” -Zac Posen

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  • Nadine Gordimer on hope

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    “Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.” -Nadine Gordimer

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  • Michael Moriarty on hope

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    “If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that… that’s part of the gift God gave us. That’s what makes life exciting. We’re pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.” -Michael Moriarty

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  • Colleen McCullough on hope

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    “In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I’ve ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.” -Colleen McCullough

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  • Robert South on hope

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    “It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.” -Robert South

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  • Ron Johnson on hope

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    “Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone’s imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don’t have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it’s impossible to do what they imagine.” -Ron Johnson

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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman on hope

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    “Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.” -Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  • Steve Kanaly on hope

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    “As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.” -Steve Kanaly

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  • James L. Farmer, Jr. on hope

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    “Anyone who said he wasn’t afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn’t shake but inside I was shaking.” -James L. Farmer, Jr.

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  • Fay Godwin on hope

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    “I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.” -Fay Godwin

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  • Diana Krall on hope

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    “But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.” -Diana Krall

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  • John C. Hawkes on hope

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    “I’m only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.” -John C. Hawkes

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  • Juno Temple on hope

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    “I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.” -Juno Temple

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  • Ernst Toller on hope

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    “Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?” -Ernst Toller

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