Quotes About Vision

I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain. I've watched 'Top Chef' and watched interviews with chefs on 'Charlie Rose'... I thought they're really intriguing characters, and they really encapsulate that tension between vision and commerce, art and commerce.

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece.

Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream.

For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science fiction, our gravitational wave discoveries have had an amazing public impact.

People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.

Back in 1995, I saw an incredible wave coming. The Internet. I knew I needed to be a part of it no matter what I did.

We're caught in an era where everyone likes riding a wave. People want to go to places that are already on the rise and going to franchises that are already doing really well. And people have lost interest in going somewhere and making something great again.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.

Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.

The North Star has always been the same, which for us, is about making insanely great products that really change the world in some way - enrich people's lives.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player of all-time, I don't think there is any debate about that. If you look at the records he holds, they'll never be broken or touched. He wasn't the biggest, wasn't the fastest, and didn't have the hardest shot, but no one saw the game developing the way he saw the game develop.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

There are many ways to be a leader.