Top 7 Inspirational Quotes for Business Success for the Week: Imagination
Top 7 Inspirational Quotes for Business Success for the Week of March 14 – 20
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Blog by poet & author Prartho Sereno
Theme of the Week: IMAGINATION
On my way through Manhattan last weekend, I was star-struck by New York by Gehry, Lower Manhattan’s shiny new construction at 8 Spruce Street. That’s how Frank Gehry’s building meets the eye: “Wow! What’s that?” Its rippling edges play with the light, making it seem alive among its stodgy straight-edged neighbors, like an up-flowing stream or a great dancing tree. I was riding with an Indian-born friend who’s spent lots of time in both Europe and Asia. “Yes,” he said, “until this one, I’ve found American buildings pretty boring. You should see all the wonderful shapes in the cities of other countries.”
This hit me as sadly ironic, that designers in “the land of the free” have been churning out so much of the expected while architects in other countries have been taking risks—using their imaginations! When I got home, a picture of the “billowing” tower greeted me again in the Culture section of the March 21 issue of Time Magazine. So I did a little research on the man and his project. It turns out Architect Frank Gehry has been rocking the box for a long time! Take a little Google-Images tour of his vivacious creations (including the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA) and it will give the word imagination a whole new, wilder meaning.
In a video clip on the New York by Gehry website, the creator talks about his process: “What I wanted to do was to resurrect the bay window. If there’s a bay window, you walk two feet forward and you’re in outer space.” It seems once you’re inside his buildings, they get better; his thinking is 3-D, or maybe he’s gone on to the next dimension or two. As the profile on Gehry in this month’s Explore (TACA airlines in-flight magazine) puts it: “He’s been so completely innovative that not only has he changed the way people look at his difficult profession, but the history of architecture as well, which is now divided into before and after Gehry.”
So, in honor of Frank Gehry’s wide-awake spirit of imagination, this week’s theme is the powers of the Imagination—not to ignore the tragedies that so many in our global village are suffering at the moment, from Japan to Libya and so many less visible places, but to offer our imaginations to these shared human challenges, to let our imaginations, as Einstein put it, “encircle the world.”
Watercolor by Prartho Sereno
Inspirational Quote #1
“Imagination lights the slow fuse of possibility.”
— Emily Dickinson, 19th century poet who revolutionized American poetry
Inspirational Quote #2
“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcendentalist philosopher, author
Inspirational Quote #3
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world .”
—Albert Einstein, Noble-laureate in physics, 1921
Inspirational Quote #4
“The imagination’s power lies in its receptivity, not in any power to invent.”
—Colin Wilson, English psychologist
Inspirational Quote #5
“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to imagine yourself to life.”
—Adele Brookman, San Francisco-based psychotherapist
Inspirational Quote #6
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
—Howard Thurman, educator, theologian, author
Inspirational Quote #7
“The true creator may be recognized by his ability to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.”
—Igor Stravinsky, musical composer
See you next week!
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