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Vision Quotes:

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

topic: Character, Greatness, Vision

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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

source: A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

topic: Vision, Definitions, Way

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

topic: Past, Vision, Your Future

You don't need vision to be a visionary.

- Aaron Scheidies

topic: Vision, Needs, Visionaries

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

topic: Men, Unity, Vision, Jinn

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.

topic: Dream, Mind, Vision

Always time to dream, so keep on dreaming!

- Abdul Salaam El Razzac

topic: Dream, Vision

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

topic: Dream, League, Vision

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

- Abraham Zaleznik

topic: Imagination, Mind, Vision

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

topic: Two, Vision, Shows

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 Huxtable

source: Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Art, Responsibility, Vision

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 Hamilton

source: "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

topic: Jesus, Sick, Vision, Sacrificial Love, Love And Forgiveness

Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.

topic: Dream, Vision, Use

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

topic: Future, Understanding, Vision

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

topic: Eye, Survival, Vision

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

topic: Reading, Glasses, Vision

... 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

topic: Giving, Vision, One Day, Interim

Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

source: "'An incredible container for transformation'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. May 9, 2014.

topic: Organization, People, Vision, Shared Vision

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

topic: Children, Future, Vision

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.

topic: Careers, Vision, Acting

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

topic: Dream, Vision, Different

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

topic: Kings, Vision, Drs

Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator.

topic: Wisdom, Islamic, Vision, Islamic Wisdom, Purifying

Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

- Alan AtKisson

source: Alan AtKisson (2012). “The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World”, p.110, Earthscan

topic: Future, Vision, Trends

When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision.

topic: Vision, Attraction

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.

topic: Historical, Magic, Vision

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.

source: "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

topic: Biblical, Greed, Vision, Kingdom Of God

There will always be those who must look into the dark in order to see.

- Alan McGlashan

topic: Dark, Order, Vision

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

topic: Vision, Filmmaker, Evolve

A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.

topic: Inspirational, Leader, Vision

For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.

- Albert Claude

topic: Vision, Size, Moments

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

- Alberto Giacometti

topic: Vision, Way, Impossible

The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.

- Alberto Giacometti

source: Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub

topic: Vision, Trying, Enthusiasm

(Art is) the residue of vision.

- Alberto Giacometti

topic: Art, Vision, Art Is

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.

- Alberto Manguel

source: Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.48, Vintage Canada

topic: Order, Vision, Library

The nature of the cosmos is such that whatever vision you have about yourself and the world will become reality. As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage.

- Alberto Villoldo

topic: Reality, Vision, Cosmos, Limiting Beliefs

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

- Albrecht Durer

topic: Men, Sight, Vision

We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.

- Aleksander Kwasniewski

topic: Years, Vision, Doubt, Poland, Together With You

Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.

- Alexander MacLaren

topic: Vision, Defense, Earth

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Eye, Men, Vision, Optics

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.

- Alexander Pushkin

topic: Beautiful, Famous Love, Vision, Quintessence

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

- Alexey Brodovitch

topic: Photography, People, Vision, Personal Vision

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.

- Alfred Armand Montapert

topic: Dream, Vision, Firsts, Visualization

The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

- Alfred Stieglitz

topic: Vision, Genius, Spirit

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

- Alfred Stieglitz

topic: Vision, Trying, Photograph

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

source: Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Psychology Press

topic: Sleep, Vision, Watches

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

topic: Educational, Thinking, Vision

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

source: Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

topic: Book, Reading, Vision

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

- Alphonse Karr

topic: Vision, Speak, Glances

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

- Alvin Toffler

source: alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

topic: Dream, Vision, Needs

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

- Alvin Toffler

topic: People, Vision, Experts, Peripheral Vision

Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with. The only difference is probably inbetween scenes, gossiping with Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand and Nancy Meyers about who's had Botox and who hasn't.

topic: Differences, Vision, Directors

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Vision, World, Cynicism

Tunnel vision can kill creativity.

topic: Creativity, Tunnels, Vision, Tunnel Vision

We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.

- Amilcar Cabral

topic: Running, Reality, Vision, Opportunist

In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisionsâ€”we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.

source: Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.323, Penguin

topic: Decision, Vision, Cards

The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened mind, which manifests itself on the plane of timeless meditative vision.

- Anagarika Govinda

topic: Clouds, Creative, Vision

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

topic: Feelings, Vision, Creation

The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.

topic: Voice, Vision, Radio

There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.

topic: Vision, Madness

Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens.

- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

topic: Eye, Years, Vision, Myopic, Myopia

Our vision is to create an exceptional lifestyle offering worthy of Tamarack's incredible surroundings. All of our partners involved in this development are committed to delivering the highest level of quality and luxury possible. We are excited to have Fairmont join us in this endeavor.

topic: Offering, Luxury, Vision

Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.

- Andreas Feininger

source: Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail

topic: Vision, Cameras, Untrustworthy, Selective

Vision is an intelligent form of thought

- Andreas Gursky

topic: Intelligent, Vision, Form

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Teamwork, Vision, Working Together

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Unity, Vision, Collaboration

You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.

source: "7 Insanely Rich Founders Share Their Best Business Advice" by Larry Kim, www.businessinsider.com. August 26, 2014.

topic: Success, Art, Vision

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

- Andrew Murray

source: Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility and Absolute Surrender”, p.33, Hendrickson Publishers

topic: Humility, Self, Vision

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

topic: Feet, Vision, Monsters, Peripheral Vision

When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.

topic: Vision, Life Is, Young, Clear Vision

If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.

- Andrew van der Bijl

topic: Vision, Scare

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

- Andrzej Wajda

source: "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

topic: Reality, Vision, Said

Coaches need to have a vision.

topic: Vision, Needs, Coaches

Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

topic: Wise, Decision, Vision, Wise Decision, Personal Vision

Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

topic: Men, Soul, Vision

Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion that it should be.

topic: Passion, Vision, Should

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.

topic: People, Vision, Assuming

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

topic: Writing, Vision, Ink

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

- Angela Ahrendts

topic: Jobs, Vision, Quota, Leadership And Vision, Best Person

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

source: Angus Wilson (1963). “The Wild Garden: Or, Speaking of Writing”, p.149, Univ of California Press

topic: Writing, Vision, Impulse

In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.

topic: Thinking, Vision, Degrees

I invite you to read again the full accounts of this inspired vision. Study them, ponder them, and apply them to your daily life. In modern terms we might say we are invited to "get a grip." We must hold on tight to the iron rod and never let go.

topic: Letting Go, Iron, Vision, Never Let Go

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

- Anna Deavere Smith

topic: People, Giving, Vision

In today's world you have to interact. You can't be some difficult, shy person who is not able to look somebody in the face; you have to present yourself. You have to know how to talk about your vision, your focus and what you believe in.

topic: Believe, Focus, Vision, Today's World, Shy Person

Mass badly celebrated is an enormous evil. Ah! it is not a matter of indifference how it is said! . . . I have had a great vision on the mystery of Holy Mass and I have seen that whatever good has existed since creation is owing to it.

- Anne Catherine Emmerich

topic: Evil, Vision, Matter, Great Vision, Holy Mass

Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own. Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall. Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this." â€” Lestat de Lioncourt

topic: Past, Fire, Vision, Alluring, Amour

If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Dream, Vegetables, Vision, Follow Through

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

- Anthony Horowitz

topic: Powerful, People, Vision, Dystopia

The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions.

- Antoni Tapies

topic: Games, Vision, Emotion

Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.

- Antonin Sertillanges

topic: Law Of Attraction, Goal, Vision

Vision is seeing visibly the light of hope within the range of the eyesight.

topic: Light, Vision, Range, Eyesight

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

- Arianna Huffington

source: Arianna Huffington (2006). “On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life”, p.123, Hachette UK

topic: Vision, World, Firsts

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

topic: Moving, History, Vision, God's Creation

You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Believe, Fire, Vision, Clear Vision

I think the first and most important thing is that you've got to have a goal and a vision.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

source: "Rule By Thieves: One Week in the American Kleptocracy" by John W. Whitehead, www.counterpunch.org. March 17, 2017.

topic: Thinking, Goal, Vision

Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Vision, Want, True Self

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision â€“ the beautiful vision â€“ that creates the want power.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Beautiful, Vision, Want

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Bodybuilding, Vision, Willpower

My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.

- Arshile Gorky

topic: Art, Memories, Vision, Armenia, New Vision

It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

- Art Garfunkel

topic: Greatness, Men, Vision, Leaving A Legacy, High Expectations

So to keep a fantasy, do not peer too closely at the world; fuzzy vision suits you best. Your creative power, turned away, is aimed inside to juggle fantasies, to solve the problems of a child's intrigue.

- Arthur J. Deikman

topic: Children, Creative, Vision

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Vision, Looks, Microscopes, Time And Space

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

- Arthur Symons

topic: Eye, Vision, Way

Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.

- Arthur Symons

source: Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

topic: Vision, Veils, Able

A consciousness of our powerlessness should cast us upon Him who has all power. Here then is where a vision and view of God's sovereignty helps, for it reveals His sufficiency and shows us our insufficiency.

- Arthur W. Pink

topic: Views, Vision, Helping, Insufficiency, Sufficiency

Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.

- Assata Shakur

topic: Vision, Causes, Honest

That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.

topic: Vision, Cost, Want

Our visions begin with our desires.

topic: Inspirational, Vision, Desire

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

- August Strindberg

source: August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.296, Univ of California Press

topic: Eye, Vision, Poison

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

- August Strindberg

source: August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.147, Univ of California Press

topic: Blessing, Vision, Sometimes

President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.

topic: Average, Support, Vision

The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

- Avigdor Lieberman

source: "The Rise of Avigdor Lieberman". Ben Lynfield, The Nation, December 14, 2006.

topic: Vision, Democracy, Important, Jewish Values

You can't see the world through a mirror.

- Avril Lavigne

source: Song: Too Much To Ask, Album: Let Go, 2002

topic: Mirrors, Vision, World

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

- Ayi Kwei Armah

source: Ayi Kwei Armah (2000). “The healers: a novel”, Per Ankh Pub

topic: Past, Vision, Forget, Our Past, Visions Of The Future

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.

topic: Vision, Youth, Ends

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

topic: Dream, People, Vision

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

topic: America, Vision, Poetic, Poetic License

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.

source: "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.

topic: Party, Political, Vision

You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.

topic: Vision, Citizens, Tomorrow

My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here.

topic: Jobs, Eye, Vision

I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

topic: Thinking, People, Vision

The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.

topic: Thinking, Two, Vision

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

- Barbara Januszkiewicz

topic: Expression, Musical, Vision, Musical Notes

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

- Barbara Jordan

topic: People, Vision, Release, Civil Rights Movement, Press Release

The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Fighting, People, Vision, Suffrage, Universal Suffrage

We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy.

- Barbara Marx Hubbard

topic: Freedom, Order, Vision, Democracy Freedom

Let's assume there is some validity in these prophecies. What vision of the future, of the new world, might we see so that we can place our attention upon this vision as a strange attractor to carry us through this critical transition?

- Barbara Marx Hubbard

topic: Vision, Transition, Attention, Visions Of The Future

If you don't know how you feel, you won't know what you want.

topic: Vision, How You Feel, Want

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.

- Barry Commoner

topic: War, Vision, United States

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Vision, Want, Able

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

topic: Vision, Television, Feds

Do you wish to see clearly and be free?

- Bassui Tokusho

topic: Vision, Wish

I can go into a playground of kids that don't know anything about Christianity, lead them to the Lord in a matter of, just no time at all, and just moments later they can be seeing visions and hearing the voice of God, because they're so open. They are so usable in Christianity.

- Becky Fischer

source: "Jesus Camp". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.

topic: Kids, Voice, Vision, Voice Of God

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

- Bede Griffiths

source: Bede Griffiths (2004). “Bede Griffiths: Essential Writings”

topic: Reality, Vision, Adequate, Conceptual Framework

Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

topic: Ethos, Vision, Males, Females And Males

Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.

topic: Believe, Vision, Identity, Hybridity

You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.

topic: Differences, People, Vision

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

- Ben Nicholson

topic: Heaven, Vision, Earth

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

- Ben Nicholson

topic: Fall, Enemy, Vision, Grandeur

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...

topic: Power, Vision, Should

The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.

topic: Eye, Vision, Visuals

Thus, a vision of the whole gradually grew for me that was nourished by the various experiences and realizations I had encountered along my theological path. I rejoiced to be able to say something of my own, something new and yet completely within the faith of the Church. The feeling of aquiring a theological vision that was ever more clearly my own was the most wonderful experience of those years.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: Years, Feelings, Vision

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Vision, Amendments, Situation, Mission And Vision, Troublesome

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

- Benjamin Zander

topic: Leadership, Jobs, Vision

And here's what I said, if its in the word we accept it but if you dream it and your vision is not in the bible then you got to dismiss it because its not based upon the word.

topic: Bible, Dream, Vision

The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.

- Berenice Abbott

topic: Photography, Space, Vision, Freeze Time

It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.

- Bernard Bailyn

source: Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.160, Harvard University Press

topic: People, Vision, Liberty

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

- Bernard of Clairvaux

topic: Vision, Wish, Hearing

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

source: Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (1967). “Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising”

topic: Creativity, Shoes, Vision

Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Men, Vision, Dominion, Solitary Man

None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.

- Bethany Hamilton

topic: Thinking, Perfect, Vision, Perfect Life

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Heart, Men, Vision

The woman's vision is deep-reaching, the man's far-reaching.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Men, Vision, Reaching, Great Vision

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.

topic: Artist, Vision, Special

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

source: "Unlocking Your Potential: The Keys to Discovering Your Hidden Treasure". Book by Wade D. Sadlier, 2011.

topic: Leadership, People, Vision, Untapped Potential, Leadership And Management

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

topic: Vision, Als

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

topic: Entrepreneur, Vision, Way

It is very important that the president thematically shows where we're going in terms of the vision and an agenda.

topic: Vision, Important, President

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

- Bill Griffith

topic: Art, Romantic Love, Vision

Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.

topic: Powerful, Leader, Vision, Powerful Weapons

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

source: Twitter post from Oct 15, 2010

topic: Passion, Vision, Produce

You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.

topic: Vision, Safe, Pursue

The grander the vision the greater the price tag.

topic: Vision, Tag

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

topic: Vision, Church

To have a functioning body and not to use it is like having 20/20 vision and never opening your eyes.

- Bill Phillips

topic: Eye, Vision, Use, Opening Your Eyes

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision

- Bill Sienkiewicz

topic: Vision, Bakers, Clear Vision, Night Vision

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.

topic: Spiritual, Vision, Alcoholics

Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.

topic: Vision, Purpose, Path

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: Dream, Believe, Vision, Inspiring Movie

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

- Billy Higgins

topic: People, Vision, Young

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

- Billy Ray Cyrus

topic: Life And Love, Giving, Vision, Never Give Up On Love

People that complete other people's vision are understated.

topic: People, Vision, Understated

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

topic: People, Vision, Might

I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World; the visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

topic: Two, Vision, Would Be, Native American Dream

It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.

topic: Order, Vision, Earth

When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.

source: "Black Elk Speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Ogalala Sioux" by John Neihardt, 1961.

topic: Rain, Vision, Storm

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

topic: People, Vision, Use, Bison

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.

source: Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

topic: Men, Darkness, Vision

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

- Blaise Pascal

source: Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.317, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Giving, Vision, Sincere, Search For Truth

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

- Blaise Pascal

source: Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

topic: Inspirational, Men, Vision

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.

topic: Vision, Tradition, Virtue, Pragmatists, Seniority

Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision.

topic: Inspirational, Goal, Vision

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.

topic: Believe, Blessing, Vision

Your purpose is why you you're living, your vision is how you're going to execute it.

topic: Vision, Purpose

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

topic: Mind, Vision, Needs

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

topic: Understanding, Mind, Vision, True Understanding, True Vision

Fear appears from a false vision of reality.

- Bokar Rinpoche

topic: Reality, Vision

I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death.

- Brad Alan Lewis

topic: Oxygen, Vision, Balloons, Fussy

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

- Brande Roderick

topic: Mean, Vision, Enough, Envisioning

My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.

topic: Reality, Vision, Ordinary

Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.

- Brenda Peterson

topic: Vision, Portraits, Essentials, Web Of Life, Best Science

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

- Brenda Ueland

topic: Flames, Choices, Vision, True Courage

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

- Brenda Ueland

topic: Children, Light, Vision

The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill, vision or voice, the result is a story beholden to and inevitably eclipsed by source material.

- Bret Anthony Johnston

topic: Skills, Voice, Vision

There are a lot of good shows that don't get picked up. Like that Ben Stiller pilot, Heat Vision And Jack? That would have been a great show, but somehow it slipped by.

- Bret McKenzie

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Vision, Pilots, Heat

One of the things that's happening to a lot of us is that there's this vision of the beauty of God that transports us and that takes us to a new depth and a new height. It's one of those things about beauty. You can't capture it in a word or a formula. When you get to that humble place where the beauty of God has overwhelmed you, I think it changes everything. You can say the same creed that you said before, but now it's not a creed that grasps God in the fist of the words, but it's a creed that points up to a beauty that's beyond anybody's grasp.

- Brian D. McLaren

topic: Humble, Thinking, Vision

Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.

- Brian Houston

source: FaceBook post by Brian Houston from Feb 05, 2013

topic: Christian, Believe, Vision

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

- Brian Mulroney

topic: Vision, Canada, Environment, Arctic, Destroying The Environment

The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity.

- Brigham Young

topic: Years, Vision, Age

The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.

- Bronislaw Malinowski

source: Bronisław Malinowski (2016). “Argonauts of the Western Pacific”, p.60, Booklassic

topic: Views, Goal, Vision

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