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Quotes About Vision

Invention has ever imagination and poetry at its heart.
~ Algernon Blackwood
We don't need to allow our vision of justice to be constrained only by what seems realistic from the perspective of today, and especially not by what powerful & privileged groups deem acceptable or pragmatic.
~ Ali Abunimah
All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.
~ Ali Smith
And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see it?
~ Ali Smith
Well, truth's like the sun. Look right at it and that's your eyes ruined for life.
~ Ali Smith
where would we be without our ability to see beyond what it is we're supposed to be seeing.
~ Ali Smith
I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen.
~ Ali Smith
Well, that's one reading of it, Elisabeth says. My own preferred reading is: free spirit arrives on earth equipped with the skill and the vision capable of blasting the tragic stuff that happens to us all into space, where it dissolves away to nothing whenever you pay any attention to the lifeforce in her pictures.
~ Ali Smith
free spirit arrives on earth equipped with the skill and the vision capable of blasting the tragic stuff that happens to us all into space, where it dissolves away to nothing whenever you pay any attention to the lifeforce in her pictures.
~ Ali Smith
The fact is, imagine.
~ Ali Smith
And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see?
~ Ali Smith
He turns to go—and that's when he gets kicked in the head by the half of the pantomime horse it's slipped his mind to shoot. He falls to the ground, dead himself on top of the pantomime fallen. It's a surrealist vision of hell. What's surrealist, Mr. Gluck? This is.
~ Ali Smith
Human reasoning, she said—referring now explicitly to Socrates and Plato—human reasoning is imperfect. Human bias keeps us from perfect vision of what is happening around us. But the quest for truth—the quest to understand the world around us—must ultimately be how you enact the good.
~ Alice Domurat Dreger
Ultimately, brands are built by people who passionately believe in their brands. Indeed, many of the world's best brands can be linked to a single person: Howard Schultz created Starbucks, Steve Jobs built Apple, Pleasant Roland formed American Girl, Richard Branson developed Virgin, and Phil Knight was the driving force behind Nike. Brand builders understand and believe in the power of brands.     Tim
~ Alice M. Tybout
And then I saw him waving to us from behind the sky's reflection.
~ Alice McDermott
You cannot approach this from logic. You have to approach this from the most wild depths of your imagination.
~ Alice McQuillan
There isn't any way to be. I will meet you where you've gone. The cards are blank; the cards are empty there. If I can just have one last cut. Do you have a plan for the new? The cards be blank. The symbols be over. I will tell my fortune with the blank cards of blank. What do you see?
~ Alice Notley
I have made myself different eyes, to see down the infinite alleyways the universe dissolves into, at each ecstatic footfall
~ Alice Notley
Os nossos órgãos de percepção - os olhos, os ouvidos, o sistema nervoso e o cérebro em si - funcionam em stereo, mas produzem uma visão holográfica do noaso ambiente.
~ Alice O. Howell
Our Way is called a Narrow Way often a lonely road a road of trusting uncertainty ... I need A safe space—no matter how small— to get off the road till my vision is clear till I can see through the tears till hands steady against the fears ... I need To remember that my life is hidden in the cleft of the Rock that to surrender is to stay, to still, to remember love always makes a Way ...
~ Alice Scott-ferguson
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly becomes a part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever." It
~ Alice Steinbach
The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God.
~ Alice Thomas Ellis
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
~ Alice Walker
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
~ Alice Walker