Vision famous 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

#Character #Greatness #Vision

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

#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

#Past #Vision #Your Future

You don't need vision to be a visionary.
-- Aaron Scheidies

#Vision #Needs #Visionaries

You don’t have to have vision to be a visionary
-- Aaron Scheidies

#Vision #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

#Men #Unity #Vision

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

#Dream #Mind #Vision

Always time to dream, so keep on dreaming!
-- Abdul Salaam El Razzac

#Dream #Vision

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#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

#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

#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

#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

#Jesus #Sick #Vision

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#Giving #Vision #One Day

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 Poo

#Organization #People #Vision

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

#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.
-- Al Pacino

#Careers #Vision #Acting

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

#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.
-- Al Sharpton

#Kings #Vision #Drs

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

#Wisdom #Islamic #Vision

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

#Future #Vision #Trends

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

#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.
-- Alan Coren

#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.
-- Alan Hirsch

#Biblical #Greed #Vision

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

#Dark #Order #Vision

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

#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.
-- Alan Sugar

#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

#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

#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

#Vision #Trying #Enthusiasm

(Art is) the residue of vision.
-- Alberto Giacometti

#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

#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

#Reality #Vision #Cosmos

Sight is the noblest sense of man.
-- Albrecht Durer

#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

#Years #Vision #Doubt

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

#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

#Eye #Men #Vision

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

#Beautiful #Famous Love #Vision

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

#Photography #People #Vision

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert

#Dream #Vision #Firsts

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

#Vision #Genius #Spirit

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

#Vision #Trying #Photograph

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#Sleep #Vision #Watches

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#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.
-- Allan Bloom

#Book #Reading #Vision

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Vision #Speak #Glances

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

#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

#People #Vision #Experts

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.
-- Amanda Peet

#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

#Vision #World #Cynicism

Tunnel vision can kill creativity.
-- Ami Vitale

#Creativity #Tunnels #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

#Running #Reality #Vision

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 revisions—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.
-- Amor Towles

#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

#Clouds #Creative #Vision

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

#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.
-- Anais Nin

#Voice #Vision #Radio

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

#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

#Eye #Years #Vision

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.
-- Andre Agassi

#Offering #Luxury #Vision

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

#Vision #Cameras #Untrustworthy

Vision is an intelligent form of thought
-- Andreas Gursky

#Intelligent #Vision #Form

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

#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

#Unity #Vision #Collaboration

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

#Success #Art #Vision

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

#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.
-- Andrew Pyper

#Feet #Vision #Monsters

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

#Vision #Life Is #Young

If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.
-- Andrew van der Bijl

#Vision #Scare

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

#Reality #Vision #Said

Coaches need to have a vision.
-- Andy Murray

#Vision #Needs #Coaches

Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.
-- Andy Stanley

#Wise #Decision #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.
-- Andy Stanley

#Men #Soul #Vision

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

#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.
-- Andy Stanley

#People #Vision #Assuming

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink
-- Andy Stanley

#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

#Jobs #Vision #Quota

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

#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.
-- Ann Druyan

#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.
-- Ann M. Dibb

#Letting Go #Iron #Vision

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

#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.
-- Anna Wintour

#Believe #Focus #Vision

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

#Evil #Vision #Matter

The writer is a person who is standing apart, like the cheese in 'The Farmer in the Dell' standing there alone but deciding to take a few notes. You’re outside, but you can see things up close through your binoculars. Your job is to present clearly your viewpoint, your line of vision. Your job is to see people as they really are, and to do this, you have to know who you are in the most compassionate possible sense. Then you can recognize others.
-- Anne Lamott

#Jobs #People #Vision

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." — Lestat de Lioncourt
-- Anne Rice

#Past #Fire #Vision

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

#Dream #Vegetables #Vision

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

#Powerful #People #Vision

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

#Games #Vision #Emotion

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

#Law Of Attraction #Goal #Vision

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

#Light #Vision #Range

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

#Vision #World #Firsts

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
-- Arnold J. Toynbee

#Moving #History #Vision

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

#Believe #Fire #Vision

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

#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

#Vision #Want #True Self

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Beautiful #Vision #Want

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Bodybuilding #Vision #Willpower