Quotes on Vision

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

Author: Mahmoud Abbas

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

Author: King Albert II

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.

Author: Bruce Babbitt

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.

Author: Christian Bale

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

Author: Russell Banks

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Author: Luis Barragan

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

Author: Ambrose Bierce

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

Author: Bill Bradley

I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow.

Author: Sonia Braga

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

Author: Donna Brazile

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

Author: James Broughton

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

Author: James Broughton

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

Author: Jeb Bush

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

Author: Steve Case

When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.

Author: Nick Cassavetes

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.

Author: Henry Cisneros

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.

Author: Albert Claude

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.

Author: Daniel Clowes

There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.

Author: Jessi Colter

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.

Author: Jim Cramer

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.

Author: Hart Crane

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

Author: Salvador Dali

If you have a vision, do something with it.

Author: Anthony D'Angelo

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Author: Robertson Davies

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Author: Robert Delaunay

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.

Author: Robert Delaunay

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Author: Don DeLillo

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

Author: Barbara Deming

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.

Author: Jonathan Dimbleby

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

Author: Michael Easley

What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it.

Author: John Eaton

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Author: George Eliot

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.

Author: George Eliot

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.

Author: Black Elk

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

Author: Harry Essex

Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision.

Author: Shawn Fanning

When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.

Author: Howard Finster

If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

Author: Mark Foley

The best vision is insight.

Author: Malcolm Forbes

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

Author: Robert Frank

I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

Author: John Fund

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Author: Khalil Gibran

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

Author: Rudy Giuliani

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.

Author: Emma Goldman

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

Author: Betty Grable

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.

Author: Lukas Haas

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

Author: Mia Hamm

Satisfying every vision that fans have is probably impossible.

Author: John Harrison

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

Author: Vance Havner

The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.

Author: Joseph Jarman

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Author: Jim Jarmusch

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

Author: Denis Johnson

You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better.

Author: Ron Johnson

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

Author: Neil Jordan

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

Author: Joseph Joubert

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Author: Rosabeth Kanter

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

Author: Garry Kasparov

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Author: Helen Keller

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Author: Helen Keller

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

Author: Helen Keller

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

Author: Jewel Kilcher

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Author: Henry Kissinger

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.

Author: C. Koop

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

Author: David Korten

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

Author: Ted Kotcheff

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

Author: Maggie Kuhn

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.

Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

And part of my vision is to do dynamic videos for kids.

Author: Tim LaHaye

I think our vision heretofore has been and should continue to be to have Cardozo be the kind of law school that we can be proud of. I would like to see it gain recognition as one of the three best law schools in New York City.

Author: Norman Lamm

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

Author: Lillie Langtry

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.

Author: Sheila Lee

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.

Author: Pierre Loti

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

Author: Joseph Maistre

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Author: Peter Marshall

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

Author: Henri Matisse

Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston.

Author: Thomas Menino

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

Author: Thomas Merton

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Author: Henry Miller

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

Author: Jonathan Miller

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

Author: Marvin Minsky

The future is wider than vision, and has no end.

Author: Donald Mitchell

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.

Author: Brian Mulroney

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

Author: Sarojini Naidu

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Author: John Naisbitt

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

Author: Leonard Nimoy

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Author: George Orwell

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Author: Cynthia Ozick

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

Author: Alan Parker

When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

Author: Robert Parker, Jr.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

Author: George Pataki

My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness.

Author: Gregory Peck

Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.

Author: Pete Pont

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Author: Dennis Potter

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

Author: Ramakrishna

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.

Author: Adrienne Rich

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

Author: Natasha Richardson

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.

Author: Faith Ringgold

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

Author: Tim Robbins

I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.

Author: Dana Rohrabacher

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

Author: Galen Rowell

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.

Author: Galen Rowell

First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

Author: Mikhail Saakashvili

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.

Author: Moshe Sharett

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

Author: Al Sharpton

This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.

Author: Martin Sheen

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Author: Isaac Singer

Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

Author: Tom Skerritt

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

Author: Tom Skerritt

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Author: Joe Slovo

All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.

Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Author: Thomas Sowell

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

Author: George Steiner

The point of vision and desire are the same.

Author: Wallace Stevens

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

Author: Charles Swindoll

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

Author: Thucydides

I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.

Author: Laurence Tribe

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Author: Miguel Unamuno

You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?

Author: Paul Vixie

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

Author: Andrzej Wajda

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Author: Sam Walton

I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.

Author: Kim Weston

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Author: Edith Wharton

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Author: James Whistler

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?

Author: Walt Whitman

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

Author: Terri Windling

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

Author: Stephen Wise

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

Author: Stephen Wise

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

Author: Stevie Wonder

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

Author: Ed Wood

Your uniqueness is your power - embrace it and watch the world unfold before you.

Author: Marie Curie

Don't let the noise of the world drown out your inner voice.

Author: Steve Jobs

The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Be the architect of your own reality, for only you hold the blueprint to your dreams.

Author: Sophia Reyes

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment to your cause.

Author: Tony Robbins

Success is not defined by what others expect of you, but by how true you are to your own vision.

Author: Michelle Obama

Believe in your own potential, for it is the spark that ignites paths unseen.

Author: Lily Singh

Dare to dream, for it is the spark that ignites the flame of possibility within us.

Author: Michelle Obama

Dare to dream beyond the limits of your imagination, for within each of us lies untapped potential waiting to be unleashed.

Author: Angela Davis

Dare to live the life you've always imagined, for you hold the power to shape your own destiny.

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

The best way to predict the future is to create it with your own hands.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Life is a canvas, and only you hold the brush to paint your true colors.

Author: Serena Williams

Embrace uncertainty as the gateway to new possibilities, for in the unknown lies the true adventure of life.

Author: Helen Keller

The only limits that exist are the ones we place on ourselves. Break free and watch the possibilities unfold.

Author: Angela Davis

Dare to dream beyond the confines of reality, for it is in the realm of imagination that true greatness resides.

Author: Alicia Keys

Be the change you wish to see in the world, for true power lies in the hands of those who dare to envision a better tomorrow.

Author: Mahatma Gandhi

Cherish your visions and dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Author: Napoleon Hill

The only limits that exist are the ones we place on ourselves; break free and soar beyond the ordinary.

Author: Sierra Turner

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. Follow your heart and intuition; they somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Author: Steve Jobs