“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.” KnowsFirstsSeemsWould BeAmericaNationsPerfectLeaderClassImagineStudentsCollegeCitizensCreatingNotionAbsurdSupposed To BeSatDiverseCompositionFilling Author:Eric Liu
“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.” WorldDifferentWholeTogetherIndividualForgetCitiesLeaderEnemyClassWatchesImagineCallingDevilSittingSightWhole WorldHorribleFlamesSmokingCoveredImagine ThatThronesProvincesBabylonLocality Book:The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
“The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these circumstances, we must imagine the literature of Christianity as spreading gradually, irregularly, and in a manner which variations inevitable.” MeanLiteratureChurchLeaderChristianityImagineCircumstancesInevitableVariationApostlesJerusalemUniformity Author:Frederic G. Kenyon
“Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of the leader is to conceal artificiality. If you believe a leader is at all necessary then you must admit that the longer the leader the better chances you have for success” IfsBelieveUseRememberPurposeChanceLeaderImagineSeaRiversFishesHandleBoatLakesFishingIf You BelieveArtificiality Book:Trout Source: Trout
“Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.” FacesLeaderDoubtImagineDutyDisappointmentPursuePalestinianHostilityPort Author:Shimon Peres
“I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.” WorldPersonsI CanPastRaceTalkingLeaderImagineSittingDown AndMarsServitudeBaggageSupremacySitting Down Author:Alice Walker
“Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.” PeopleWorldMadeStoriesPurposeLeaderImagineJourneyGainsThorough Author:Chinua Achebe
“One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.” HumansLeaderTechnologyImagineWeaponsFinancialDevelopingInventingResearchersFinancial Markets Author:Stephen Hawking
“In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.” AbilityLeaderImagineGreatnessMediocrity Author:Robert Fritz