#mit

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#creativity #imagination #limitations #imagination

IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels. V   If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man. VI   If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot. VII   The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite. ↗

— William Blake

#imagination #limitation #possession #wishful-thinking #imagination

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results. ↗

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

#inspirational #inspirational

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations. ↗

— Wally Schirra

#became #craved #even #glenn #how

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#committees #confronting #conscience #courage #everything

Remember, the light at the end of the tunnel may be you. ↗

— Aerosmith

#inspirational

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#influence #inspiration #inspirational

Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#become #even #history #iron #jewish

The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with. ↗

— Rob Liano

#inspiration #maturity #responsibility #wedding-vows #inspirational

The audacity of my sagacity is instrumentality to my successity. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#audacity #creativity #ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #inspiration #instrumentality