“I just can’t imagine being in a world and not being fascinated with what ideas are doing to us.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
The Paris Review interview (2010)
“What fascinated my imagination was the tremendous feat, which I felt I should be perfectly able to accomplish.”
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin
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“Madness is one of the main resources for accomplishing genious feats.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: La follia è una delle principali risorse per compiere geniali imprese.
Source: prevale.net
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Address on the anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King (15 January 1983) http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1983/11583d.htm <br class="br">1980s, First term of office (1981–1985) <br class="br">Context: Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others — white and black — preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence. We can be so thankful that Dr. King raised his mighty eloquence for love and hope rather than for hostility and bitterness. He took the tension he found in our nation, a tension of injustice, and channeled it for the good of America and all her people.
Irene Sabatini (1967) writer from Zimbabwe
Source: National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2020/09/notes-from-an-author-irene-sabatini-on-finding-inspiration-in-zimbabwes-landscapes
“Am I that fascinating to you, or are you just more bored than I imagined?”
Alastair Reynolds book Chasm City
Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 27 (p. 438).
Charles Cooley (1864–1929) American sociologist
Charles Cooley (1927). Life and the Student: Roadside Notes on Human Nature, Society, and Letters. p. 200
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Non so cosa significhi realizzare cose nella normalità, non è nel mio DNA. Qualunque cosa io realizzi, esagero sempre.
Source: prevale.net
J.M. DeMatteis (1953) comics illustrator
A Conversation With The Legendary J.M. DeMatteis! (2004)
Context: As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I’m a Total Disnoid. Walt Disney is one of my heroes: it’s extraordinary what one man, armed only with will and imagination, accomplished. To be a part of that history, that legacy — in any small way — is really an honor.
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Comments on the North American Events (1862)
Context: Lincoln is not the product of a popular revolution. This plebeian, who worked his way up from stone-breaker to Senator in Illinois, without intellectual brilliance, without a particularly outstanding character, without exceptional importance-an average person of good will, was placed at the top by the interplay of the forces of universal suffrage unaware of the great issues at stake. The new world has never achieved a greater triumph than by this demonstration that, given its political and social organisation, ordinary people of good will can accomplish feats which only heroes could accomplish in the old world!
Alice A. Bailey (1880–1949) esoteric, theosophist, writer
Source: The Unfinished Autobiography (1951), Chapter II, Part 1