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Quotes About Visions

drugged their despair with Thunderbird and buried their dead visions and dreams in the alley behind the Pastime, ignorant of the God at work beneath their emptiness.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.
~ bible quotes vii
The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds.
~ bible quotes viii
The extreme joy, the weeping, the shaking and trembling, the visions and dreams, the healing, the deliverance, and the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit, including tongues and prophecy, all are revelations of His face. Some people love these manifestations, and some people reject them. But the sobering thing to realize is that our response to the move of the Spirit is not a response to manifestations. Rather, it is a response to the face of God.
~ Bill Johnson
The soul faithfully comes to our aid through dreams, deep emotion, love, the quiet voice of guidance, synchronicities, revelations, hunches, and visions, and at times through illness, nightmares, and terrors.
~ Bill Plotkin
To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Seguramente la soledad es peligrosa para las inteligencias que trabajan demasiado. Necesitamos tener a nuestro alrededor otras personas que nos comuniquen sus pensamientos. La soledad prolongada puebla de visiones fantasmales el vacío.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Also, like the Holy Grail, the business plan remains largely unattainable and mythological. Most experts wouldn't agree, but a business plan is of limited usefulness for a startup because entrepreneurs base so much of their plans on assumptions, "visions," and unknowns.
~ Guy Kawasaki
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking all their gaudy visions and hallucinations seriously.
~ H.L. Mencken
I made it last night in a dream of strange cities;
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Every person has hopes and dreams.
~ Harlan Coben
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
~ Saul Bellow
Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Everywhere are people with dreams, and I think how we all have them.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Inborn human desires are a nuisance to those with utopian and totalitarian visions, which often amount to the same thing.
~ Steven Pinker
You're supposed to learn that things that you think are nothing, as weightless as air, are actually powerful substantial forces, as real and as solid as earth.   I understood. The eagle was telling me that dreams, visions, meditations such as this very one–things that I had till now disdained as fantasy and illusion–were as real and as solid as anything in my waking life.
~ Steven Pressfield
Everyone gets to have dreams. Not just you.
~ Susan Mallery
With Bayesian networks, we had taught machines to think in shades of grey, and this was an important step toward humanlike thinking. But we still couldn't teach machines to understand causes and effects. We couldn't explain to a computer why turning the dial of a barometer won't cause rain.... Without the ability to envision alternate realities and contrast them with the currently existing reality, a machine...cannot answer the most basic question that makes us human: "Why?
~ Judea Pearl
Literature makes us better thinkers. It moves us to see the multi-sidedness of situations and therefore expands the breadth of our visions, moving us towards dreams and solutions we might otherwise have imagined.
~ Judith Langer
He still had dreams about it. Certainly not nightmares - it could not be worth the energy. But every month or so he woke up from one of those annoying visions where he was back at school (rather absurdly at his current age of eight-and-twenty). It was always of a similar nature. He looked down at his schedule and suddenly realized he'd forgotten to attend Latin class for an entire term. Or arrived for an exam without his trousers.
~ Julia Quinn
A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.
~ Bo Bennett
In dreams lie responsibilities.
~ Haruki Murakami
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.
~ Chief Seattle