Vision Quotations | Page 3

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

We can support President Barack Obama, because he supports us. We can support Barack Obama, because he shares our values and our vision.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

The Democrats' agenda isn't working for women. Their vision has produced big government and limited opportunity. Our vision is for limited government and opportunity for all. Women deserve better than what President Obama has delivered.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

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.

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me that I had the vision to accomplish great things in life. He always encouraged me to do what I wanted to do - and this has stood me in good stead.

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

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

It's important to be true to yourself and your vision.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

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.

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.

When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

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

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

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

If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.

I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life.

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.

We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to them.' Now, this may be true for blind people who lost their vision at a later age. It's rarely true for people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age.

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.

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

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

We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.

I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.

I really felt it was time for a new vision.

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.

I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

The point of vision and desire are the same.

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

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

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

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

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.