The Vision Quotes

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.

Stressing and obsessing over your vision blocks it.

Have a vision but hold it lightly, wear it like a loose garment.

When you realize there are geniuses out there and you'd be a journeyman... that's not good enough. I'd rather be the person helping those who are one in a billion get their vision out.

Parecon is a very tough-minded economic vision and model, and it sets a standard for us to look at.

Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

Both must make tangible, immediate steps toward this vision.

Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.

Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

Remembering and seeing are not the same, and that is why memories are of little use to us in forming loving relationships.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

If a good visionary wants to jump on board with that and I see their vision correctly and I like it and I like the script, I would absolutely do it but I have to read the script first.

What's your vision of what you think should happen? How can you make it happen? Go stand in your power and walk with intention to make it so.

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

I would say I'm waiting for, I guess, designers to open up their vision.

Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life.

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

I urge each of you to think seriously about the vision Dr. Daniel puts forth and think about what you can do to make it happen.

Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

My vision of America is an America where everyone has a place, if you're willing to work hard, you do your part, you contribute to the community.

It means a great deal to have the faith and trust of so many people who share the view and vision I have for the USA and I'm going to do everything I can not to let them down.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.

If you feel something in your heart, if you have a vision for it, then it's no longer a risk.

My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married.

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

I look for good directors mainly because if you do enough of movies where there's not a real creative vision behind it, you start to turn into a robot and you want to jump off a bridge.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.