Quotes and Sayings About Vision
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A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.
-- A. Powell Davies -
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
-- A. R. AmmonsSource : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
-- A. R. Bernard -
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You don’t have to have vision to be a visionary
-- Aaron Scheidies -
But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up - and succeed.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Always time to dream, so keep on dreaming!
-- Abdul Salaam El Razzac -
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.
-- Abraham Zaleznik -
I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.
-- Abraham Zapruder -
The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.
-- Ada Louise HuxtableSource : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
-- Adam HamiltonSource : "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.
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Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.
-- Adam West -
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
-- Adrienne Rich -
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
-- Agnes Repplier -
... The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
-- Ai-jen PooSource : "'An incredible container for transformation'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. May 9, 2014.
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The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
-- Al Gore -
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
-- Al Pacino -
Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
-- Al Sharpton -
Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator.
-- Al-Jahiz -
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Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely
-- Alan AtKissonSource : Alan AtKisson (2012). “The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World”, p.110, Earthscan
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When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision.
-- Alan Cohen -
Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.
-- Alan Coren -
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
-- Alan HirschSource : "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.
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There will always be those who must look into the dark in order to see.
-- Alan McGlashan -
A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
-- Alan Parker