Quotes About Vision

A CEO of a multinational global company can't say what to do; you've got to plant the flag.

I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.

If people long to create a better world, then we must use our platform to nurture imagination - hopeful ideas, fresh alternatives, belief that the way things are isn't the way things need to be.

It takes every ounce of my concentration and focus every night to be in character, to sing in good voice, to not fall off the platform. I use my peripheral vision more than I have ever used it in my life.

We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.

It's important to think about the bigger picture, especially if we are given these platforms. We can make a difference.

There are lots of different ways to play football; I choose one in my career. I believe in that one.

Creativity is a huge part of my game as a player. It helps open doors which others don't see.

Usually, the most intelligent player is a midfielder.

When I scramble and do those things, I try to look downfield, look for the playmakers, put it in their hands, and let them make all the big plays happen.

One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please.

I'm not interested in pleasing color; I'm interested in exact color.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in a kind of contemptuous satirical vision; I try always, even when I'm knowingly being satirical, to also be humane, but I mean, let's face it: there's plenty in American life to make fun of, and we all participate in it.

I always wanted to, at some point, sit down and consider how to plot out one piece of work, one album, from start to finish.

There's more to directing than plotting scenes out.

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

We didn't start at 'Fallout 3' and think about how to add to that. We take a step back and think, 'Okay, if we look at all the 'Fallout' games, what would a new one feel like?' So the focus is not ''Fallout 3' plus this'. Then we start really digging into the world.

The brilliance of Jill Soloway is that while some people will give you Season Two, plus 10%, she's just kicked it.

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.

I have a whole, you know, pocket full of dreams I want to achieve. I don't know in which order they're going to fall.

I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.