Ken Johnston famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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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.
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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.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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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.
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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.
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Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
