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HOST ILIZA
How powerful is imagination?

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CHARLES VEST
Imagination is what differentiates human beings from every other animal form of life on Earth.

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SALLY RIDE
The power of our society is in our collective imagination.

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STUDENTS
I have an idea. I have an idea. I have an idea.

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SIR KEN ROBINSON
The great hope for the future is we have this extraordinary capacity to imagine alternatives and then to act upon them.

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HOST ILIZA
Do you think the future is going to be what you think it’s going to be?

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STUDENT
The future is full of endless possibilities

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PETER DIAMANDIS
You’re going to create the future. What happens in the future is completely and totally up to you.

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MICHEAL SHELLENBERGER
Humand are fully in control. It’s really a matter of creating the kind of world we want to live in.

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JAMES CANTON
It starts with a mindset. It starts with opening your mind and exploring a possibility that nobody ever thought was possible.

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PRESIDENT KENNEDY
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy but because they are hard.

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HOST ILIZA
The road ahead, greand challenges.

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ROBERT LANGER
If young people and educators sort of understand what some of these challenges are, they’ll start to think about things in different ways.

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ANGELA BELCHER
It calls for new innovative ideas and creativity.

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JOHN HENNESSY
You’ve gotta think outside of the box. You’ve gotta think of something different.

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CALESTOUS JUMA
IF there’s a box the first thing you do is demolish the box.

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DEAN KAMEN
We need more and more kids capable of taking on the challenge in a more complex, more fast moving world.

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SALLY RIDE
Students growing up today really are concerned about the future of the planetand it’s an opportunity for us to engage them in the solutions.

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STUDENTS
These are my challenges. These are my challenges.
These are my challenges.  They’re ours to solve.

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DEBRA DUNN
We need a whole generation of innovators.

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RAY KURZWEIL
We need to foster creativity, inventiveness, we should be encouraging kids to try to invent solutions., to be willing to fail, to realize that failure is just success deferred.

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CAROL ENGELMANN
It’s developing that curiosity within our kids.

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RENEE ROLLERI
We don’t just learn through tests, we learn through reading and writing and drawing and singing and dancing.

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HOST ILIZA
There’s a new conversation going on.

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CHARLES VEST
The grand march of humankind through history ahs always been one of the world getting better. We just kinda need to get in that spirit again.

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HOST ILIZA
It’s positive.

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Seeing the possibilities is really what can transform, what can make life better.

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STUDENTS
I’m a scientist.
I’m an engineer.
I’m an entrepreneur.

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FAROUK EL-BAAZ
Let your imagination go. In any direction, no matter what it is.

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STUDENTS
Imagine it!

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PHIL STANTON
Only you can imagine fro your own being. And that’s what the world’s waiting for. To find out what’s inside of you.

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SIR KEN ROBINSON
Try to find in yourself what this thing is you might love to do.

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HOST ILIZA
It’s about what’s possible.

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LIHINI ALUWIHARE
If you follow in someone’s footsteps, you only go as far as they have gone. Imagination is really the way to get beyond that.

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ROSAMUND ZANDER
Imagine where you’d like to go.

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ROBERT LANGER
Dream big dreams and make them happen.

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STUDENTS
Imagine it!

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HOST ILIZA
It’s about the future.

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PETER DIAMANDIS
Empower yourself. Organize. Set a clear vision for the future and go out there and make it happen.

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TOD MACHOVER
Having a goal in which you really believe in, and you go for it, you’ll get somewhere.

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WESLEY HARRIS
Don’t be afraid. Walk face on into the risk. Prepare for it, but walk into it. Don’t walk away from it.
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STUDENTS
Imagine it!

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G WAYNE CLOUGH
Imagination is opportunity, it’s fun, it’s exciting, it’s what makes life really enjoyable.

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RANDY KOMISAR
Imagine a more perfect world than the one we live in and then engage in making that happen.

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STUDENTS
Imagine it!

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HOST ELIZA
Join the conversation.

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STUDENTS
Imagine it!

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HOST ELIZA
It’s not about turning light bulbs off. It’s about turning imagination on.

DVDs Now Available at Amazon! Select film title below to purchase…

Imagine it! Post It Challenge DVD

imagine it!² The Power of Imagination DVD

Imagination in a Box! DVD (Both films & more)

A special thanks to Michael Franti & Spearhead, Jill Brogan at Guerrilla Management and Hector Martinez at Epitah Records for providing the following music tracks for the imagine it! project:

Yes I Will - Buy Now!

Michael Franti

Franticsolutions / Universral Music / ASCAPC

Young
c-Ya-Later-Sound / BMI

D. Shul
ShulD Music / BMI

Everybody Ona Move - Buy Now!

Michael Franti

Epitah, Anti, Hellcat Records, Los Angeles

To learn more about Michael Franti please visit his website michaelfranti.com

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