In his 2013 book Mass Flourishing, Edmund Phelps argues that we need to promote "a culture protecting and inspiring individuality, imagination, understanding, and self-expression that drives a nation's indigenous innovation".
Education will be crucial to inspiring the imagination and dreams of these future leaders.
The outbreak has dominated the news, inspiring the imaginations of many, often, unfortunately, in detrimental ways because of fear of the unknown.
It traces the way Housman's singular vision seized hold of the English imagination, inspiring not just a literary following but a generation of composers, like George Butterworth and Ralph Vaughan Williams, who sought to do musically what Housman had done with verse: to create a new and authentically English kind of song.
But they have caught the state's collective imagination, inspiring forums and media interest and prompting Jay B. Childs, a New Hampshire filmmaker, to make a documentary about them.
Thanks in part to such unladylike weapons, these women captured the public's imagination, inspiring films, books, plays, poems, ballets, bobbleheads, and, in this case, a list.
"It's been interesting and in some ways inspiring to put imagination to what is essentially a large media machine," he said.
Few places in the world have so captured the western imagination, inspiring writers, artists and composers from Mozart and Ingres all the way down to the anonymous 19th-century author of The Lustful Turk, but in its 400 years as a working harem, only one entire western male was ever allowed inside while the women were in residence, and that was Dallam.
"Being in a place where you don't understand certain things is really inspiring for your imagination," Mr. Jarmusch said in a recent interview in the Manhattan office of Focus Features, the distributor of "The Limits of Control," which opens on Friday in New York and Los Angeles.
