The Vision Quotes
I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.
One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. Time and time again, conflicts are resolved through shifts that were unimaginable at the start.
I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.
If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.
I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
Web services fits into the original vision of the ASP model in that there are these functions out on the Internet and you can just go out there and rent them.
Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.
Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
You, a person with a vision, are like a pebble in a stream, moving ever outward to infinity, impacting on all who come into contact with the ripple.
The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future
Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on.
If you provide the drive, dream, and vision, with God’s help, you can accomplish anything.
Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.
There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited about the magnitude of the aura I see, when Alan performs.
As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.
I think like a lot of people in this country I want to see a vision. And, again, that would be true of candidates on all levels. It's time to see a clear, bold vision for progressive economic change.
I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.
Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.
The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.
Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.
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.
What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.
My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.
Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.
Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.
I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.