Vision Quotations | Page 4

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

I have a vision, and I know I'm right.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.

When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented... I had an absolute vision after the first workshop meeting.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

I always find it much easier when there's one person whose vision you're following, as opposed to many people.

Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

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.

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.

The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.

He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision. It's like a release. I'm glad it's come back into my life.

We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

People that complete other people's vision are understated.

Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed president - his economy is bleak, his foreign policy bleaker, his vision for American even bleaker still. But he wins.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.

Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

One thing is sure. Women and girls will have their first vision of a female network anchor who is an authority on her own. Since we learn by example, there's no telling where that iconic image may lead.

My secret campaign weapon is Rufus, whose 17 pounds of furry affection provides a playmate for the children of voters, giving mom and dad a few minutes to talk about their vision for the future.

Personally, the thrill I got out of making House of Bamboo was shooting in Japan, having a major studio budget and enough money and working counter to stereotypes. In terms of style, I wanted the wide screen and the color. I loathe this cliche vision of the underworld. Dark alleys and wet streets. I've done it. Everybody's done it. It becomes fake, and I don't like it.

On the planet, over 90 percent of the population 45 years and older have difficulty reading, but their distance vision is OK. The current bifocal lenses are divided ... so when people are driving they are not using the bifocal lens. Our lens, with the focusing power, allows them to use the whole lens for different vision tasks at the same time.