Barack Obama Quotes About Imagination

• Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

  "Obama To Young Scientists: ‘Keep Asking Why’" by Sara Bondioli, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2015.

• Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Imagination, Empathy

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

• The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Carpe Diem, People

• There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Memories, Ambition

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

• [...] we must start by inspiring our children with a sense of purpose...by nurturing their imagination so that they may dream big and then work hard to reach those dreams. Too often, our children spend hours playing Playstation without ever finding out how to build Playstation. They watch television but never wonder how it's put together. They surf web page after web page on the Internet, but are never taught how to design one.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Dream, Children

• There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people's imaginations. And in death, they become even larger. Now, I have to admit that it's also fed by a 24/7 media that is insatiable.

  Barack Obama

  Media, People, Imagination

  "Michael Jackson's family has private service". www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 7, 2009.

• The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure.

  Barack Obama

  Lying, Pride, America

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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