Calvin Coolidge
(1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”
Paraphrased variant: We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Harvard address (2008)
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“Just what we need," moaned Holly. "Artemis Fowl with magical powers.”
Eoin Colfer
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Source: The Lost Colony
Christopher Reeve
(1952–2004) actor, director, producer, screenwriter
As quoted at the Christopher Reeve Foundation http://www.christopherreeve.org/site/c.geIMLPOpGjF/b.1097025/k.6FF5/Christopher_and_Dana_Reeve.htm, also in Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research (2008) by Clive N. Svendsen and Allison D. Ebert, Vol. 1, p. 104
Variant: We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
Hugo Chávez
(1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela
President Hugo Chavez's Speech at the U.N. General Assembly, Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Muriel Rukeyser
(1913–1980) poet and political activist
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 169; part of this statement is also used in the "Introduction"
Context: In time of the crises of the spirit, we are aware of all of need, our need for each other and our need for ourselves. We call up our fullness; we turn, and act. We begin to be aware of correspondences, of the acknowledgement in us of necessity, and of the lands.
And poetry, among all this — where is there a place for poetry?
If poetry as it comes to us through action were all we had, it would be very much. For the dense and crucial moments, spoken under the stress of realization, full-bodied and compelling in their imagery, arrive with music, with our many kinds of theatre, and in the great prose. If we had these only, we would be open to the same influences, however diluted and applied. For these ways in which poetry reaches past the barriers set up by our culture, reaching toward those who refuse it in essential presence, are various, many-meaning, and certainly — in this period — more acceptable. They stand in the same relation to poetry as applied science to pure science.
Yanni
(1954) Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer
Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin
“At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.”
Werner Erhard
(1935) Critical Thinker and Author
Interview with William Warren Bartley, cited in — [Bartley, William Warren, w:William Warren Bartley, Werner Erhard: the Transformation of a Man: the Founding of est, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1978, New York, 247, 0-517-53502-5]
Variant: You and I possess within ourselves, at every moment of our lives and under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives.
