Quotes about vision

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity. There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.

Focus on your product. A lot of people focus on the name of their brand or the legal aspects, but it's more important to create your product. It's why people join. It's your vision. Without your product, nothing is going to happen.

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal - that is not a new idea.

During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.

Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

I loved everything about my wedding look, but, in retrospect, I would have changed the position of where we attached the veil on my head. Make sure you test a few different placements and styles before the big day to make a clear vision and plan with your hairstylist.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life the cause of it is moha (illusory vision).

I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how to deal with climate change and prepare for future weather events.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

We wish we hope. Nothing hardly changes. We take action and more action. Wow! What we envision begins to occur.

No true power can be founded among men which does not depend upon the free union of their inclinations and patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of the body politic to one end.

Vision is not fiction fiction could be a pure imagination vision is to zoom into the future as if it were closer.

Those focused on the future don't complain about their past those complaining about their past aren't focused on their futures.

Action without Vision is BlindVision without Action is Lame...

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything it can even lead to vision itself.

It is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measurable dimensions could so shake and change a man and we may only say that there is about certain outlines and entities a power of symbolism and suggestion which acts frightfully on a sensitive thinker’s perspective and whispers terrible hints of obscure cosmic relationships and unnamable realities behind the protective illusions of common vision.

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Unity is vision it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen - in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles.

The 6 months leading to an ultra marathon are crucial in how you will do Vision and mission planning are as important in whatever.

Some blind faithfully some see.

Vision without Mission is LameMission without Vision is Blind.

Sight is seeing with the eyes vision is seeing with the mind.

Business leaders cultivate vision to unify teams the teams cultivate business to fulfill the vision.

You may pray to God to remove the hills on your way and fill every pothole on your path but don’t be surprised if God gives you a shovel to do so!

Actions do not need to be changed just change your vision.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

I guess the news is this: If you're a Republican and you smile, liberals don't like it. Maybe that's because Democrats are afraid that I've been able to show an optimistic vision for this country.

I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.

My political awakening, if I can be as grand as to call it that, was all about what was happening around me. It wasn't some romantic, patriotic vision of Scotland going back to what it had been 300 years previously.

I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that's just anachronistic and probably a non-reality.

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.

The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.

Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

Look where YOU have been view where YOU are at seek where YOU want to be.

Success is 3Ms: Your vision produces the Map your actions produce the Motion your persistence produces Monetary rewards.

Eyes are wonderful! Revelation is more wonderful! Eyes deceive you revelation does not. Eyes evaluate revelation is certain. God gives everyone eyes revelation is reserved for those who pursue him for it.

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

Many of the most powerful things in life are not tangible. All it takes is for you to close your eyes to see.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

If you see the world and yourself through a lens smudged by negativity then you’ll find much misery. If you look outwards and inwards through lens brightened by positivity you’ll find much to be happy and appreciative about.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do.

I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the unive

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

I see the life with your sight,O" the love; you're my light.

Every child needs a champion.

The sorry religious novel comes about when the writer supposes that because of his belief, he is somehow dispensed from the obligation to penetrate concrete reality. He will think that the eyes of the Church or of the Bible or of his particular theology have already done the seeing for him, and that his business is to rearrange this essential vision into satisfying patterns, getting himself as little dirty in the process as possible.

When you are on a great mission, look simple;think and act complexly

Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.

Maintain a persistent focus of what you want

Those that know where they are going will not take any path they see in front of them, but they will take the one that goes in the direction they want.

Your destiny provides you with answers to the questions concerning you overcoming different obstacles, hassles and giving you a vision of your future

Stop existing and start living!

Your purpose will be clear only when you listen to your heart.

Our future lies on the horizon of our destiny.

We're not reinventing the wheel. We're just rolling it down our own path.

Strategic Thinking = Systems Thinking + Creativity + Vision

In you is a formidable force that can bring the desired change you want in the world. Stop waiting for the perfect time, go to work now!

No one can replace you to do what you are destined to do until you totally fail it and leave an empty gap that God will fill.

A lesson in bringing about true changes of mind and heart comes from a Japanese functionary. By day, he crunched numbers that showed his country was approaching imminent energy crisis and helped to craft policy. By night, he weaved a novel in which a bureaucrat-hero helps see the country through to new energy sources. When the crisis came faster than he expected, he actually put the novel away because he did not want to make the burden of his countrymen worse. When the short-term crisis passed,

Once you have the vision and the passion to make it happen, you will achieve your dreams. It is up to you to decide when to make it happen; attitudes guide you to answer that!

Face each day with radiant, nurturing love, confidence, a bright vision and creativity with enduring determination and strength matched with a breathing courage as you happily embrace your responsibility and growth in many areas of life. Combine your energy and joy, your passion and vision in creating a brighter day.

Mediocrity is ‘purpose’ left to rot in minds ensnared in the deluded rationalization that vision is nothing more than a collection of fanciful dreams constructed by an imaginary God.

If left to my own simplistic devices and the sorely scant limits of my abilities, would I not die a death of the blandest sort imaginable? And should I not thank God that He graciously gifted me with an imagination that renders such a death entirely unimaginable?

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.

Desires and wishes don’t lead to success. Plans and efforts do. Create a vision, chalk out an action plan, put in your best efforts and give yourself a headstart in achieving your dreams.

You must have courage and confidence to pursue the visions.

Never adjust your goals, amplify your might.

Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous

Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.

Live your greatest dreams.

I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen