Quotes About Vision

Pourtant, il y a une lucidité qui nous vient parfois dans ces moments-là, quand on se surprend à regarder le monde à travers ses larmes, comme si elles servaient de lentilles pour rendre plus net ce que l'on regarde.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

Dusk, suggesting the almost imperceptible posession of giant trees, settled with a purple haze about the cane. I felt strange, as I always do in Georgia, particularly at dusk. I felt that things unseen to men were tangibly immediate. It would not have surprised me had I had a vision.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination.

I start a picture and I finish it.

I believe you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

All my films hinge on the fantastic. I'm not a documentarian; a film is first and foremost a dream, and it's absurd to copy life in an attempt to produce an exact recreation of it. Transposition is more or less a reflex with me.

They also remind us of the importance of the imagination.

C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing. Carl Jung

Focus on what you believe and what you want to create, regardless of the blowback.

The toughest thing in life is not learning a bunch of potentially hypothetically useful stuff, but figuring out what the heck it is you want to do.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

The greatest enthusiasm in the world won't make up for a business plan that doesn't work.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.

If you try to observe the world for long enough through the perfect lens, then one day it will surely settle permanently into place, and then every object is a still life. You live in the moments between blinks.

Choose words that will point you in the direction of your goals.

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. — Ralph Charell

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.

You can devote your life to the vision that is in your heart---if you have courage to focus your energy there. Of course, there is a price to be paid. But there is always a price...But I think the highest price is paid by those who choose the safety of the masses and blend in, becoming a whiter shade of pale.

You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as great as your dominant aspiration

Good teams have a compelling product vision that they pursue with a missionary-like passion. Bad teams are mercenaries.