Quotes About Vision

Lo pasábamos bien juntos, pese a las brumas y las humaredas en que vivíamos envueltos. Pese a mi visión tan reducida, pese a todo. Era como si asistiera a su vida con sólo un ojo, el otro tuerto.

Contribution Is About Understanding, and Looks Forward

Dr. David Jeremiah

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can't see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we're going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see

When I have a mission, it gives me something to focus on.

summarized as follows: Sunday: Favor with God (spiritual revelation, anointing, holiness). Monday: Favor with others (congregations, ministry staff, unsaved). Tuesday: Increased vision (wisdom and enlightenment, motives, guidance). Wednesday: Spirit, Soul, Body (health, appearance, attitudes

Writing a novel is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

The way I work] is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. (The Paris Review, Winter 1986, No. 101)

I'm Homer, the blind brother.

Consciousness without world is impossible, just as there is no sight without the light to see by. Is that your objection

It's like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way

You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.

All utopian visions have this in common: the mental projection of a future time when all will be well, we will be saved, there will be peace and harmony and the end of our problems. There have been many such utopian visions. Some ended in disappointment, others in disaster.

Scripture exists because we need revelation. We can't see reality clearly with the naked eye. Scripture is God's technology that allows us to see everything we need to see.

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

No one else in the wide world, since the dawn of time, has ever seen the world as you do, or can explain it as you can. This is what you have to offer that no one else can.

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

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level, and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Since the fanciful vision of the future that had flitted through her imagination at their first meeting she had hardly ever thought of his marrying her. She had not had to put the thought from her mind; it had not been there. If ever she looked ahead she felt instinctively that the gulf between them was too deep, and that the bridge their passion had flung across it was as insubstantial as a rainbow. But she seldom looked ahead; each day was so rich that it absorbed her....