Quotes About Vision

he hated the financial speculation that would result from the Hamiltonian vision of commerce. "It is much to be wished that every discouragement should be thrown in the way of men who undertake to trade without capital," Jefferson said.91 "The consumers pay for it in the end, and the debts contracted, and bankruptcies occasioned by such commercial adventurers, bring burden and disgrace on our country." Yet

I live and breathe art",' said Phoebe. ' "What other people refer to as 'the real world' has always seemed pale and insipid by comparison".

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

Now that I'm blind, I can see there is nothing to see.

All of a sudden I became aware of how very hungry I was to construct and inhabit an imagined world.

In my new business, this is one of the things we work actively with CEOs to see: how one idea from the top can spiral into 100 projects for the team and overwhelm them in ways the CEOs can't even imagine. But

Phantasie ist die Gabe, unsichtbare Dinge zu sehen.

Darwin argues, essentially, that all the sophistications we see in the eagle's or the human's eye could have arisen gradually, by stages, across geological spans of time, each stage conferring somewhat clearer vision than the one before.

He measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

La literatura no es otra cosa que un sueño dirigido.

Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.

He wanted to dream a man; he wanted to dream him with minute integrity and insert him into reality.

In the dream of the man that dreamed, the dreamed one awoke.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

el vago rosa trémulo que se ve con los ojos cerrados

Por lo demás, la literatura no es otra cosa que un sueño dirigido.

como todo escritor, medía las virtudes de los otros por lo ejecutado por ellos y pedía que los otros lo midieran por lo que vislumbraba o planeaba

He dreamt a complete man, a youth, but this youth could not rise nor did he speak nor could he open his eyes. Night after night, the man dreamt him as asleep.

Vi el Aleph, desde todos los puntos, vi en el Aleph la tierra, vi mi cara y mis vísceras, vi tu cara, y sentí vértigo y lloré, porque mis ojos habían visto ese objeto secreto y conjetural, cuyo nombre usurpan los hombres, pero que ningún hombre ha mirado: el inconcebible universo.

color is the most relative medium in art

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello, Management: Revised Edition, 2008, p. 288.

The way in which we see things can hardly be distinguished from the way in which we wish to see them.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact...