"We should endeavor practically in our lives..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.”
“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.”
“No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.”
More on Self Improvement
“When you change, everything will change for you.When you get better, everything will get better for you.”
“Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.”
“I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.”
More on Imagination
“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.”
“Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.”
“Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.”