This document contains 6 quotes from influential thinkers on topics such as creativity, imagination, hope, storytelling, understanding human needs, and optimism. Edward de Bono and Albert Einstein discuss how creativity and imagination allow one to look at things in new ways beyond established patterns of logic. Vaclav Havel and Noam Chomsky address how hope and optimism are about making sense of things and taking responsibility to make the future better rather than certainty of outcomes. Antony Gormley's quote focuses on how each person contributes to the larger whole through their own story. Abraham Maslow examines how the need to understand must integrate both the desire for knowledge and the fear of it, with human needs for safety and security.