Quotes About Vision

Zimmerman, G. & Zebehazy, K. (2011). Blindness and low vision. In J. Kauffman & D. Hallahan (Eds.), Handbook of special education (pp. 247–261). New York, NY: Routledge.

But I soon found that I was seeing the aura of the flowers. A wonderful light shone out from every little petal and flower, and the whole was a blaze of splendor.

One thing most software architects fail to realize is that a software architect is also a leader.

Like Janus, a software architect needs to be a keeper of doors and passageways, spanning the old and the new, incorporating creativity with sound engineering to fulfill todays requirements while planning to meet tomorrow's expectations.

Your vision of both macro and micro levels will be greatly enhanced by the time you spend in the belly of the beast bringing it to life.

This country needs a leader, not a pollster; a healer, not a wheeler-dealer; a conscience-raiser, not a fund-raiser.

It is only when we forget the ideas behind building something wonderful that we can actually do the building that makes things wonderful.

All great men are delusional. How else could they be crazy enough to think they could change the world?

Nowhere is our vision more distorted than when we turn it on ourselves.

The success is more determined by imagination then circumstance

Those who fail to plan are planning to fail.

Without dreams, life is a desert.

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

Maybe we're just seeing a tiny corner of reality—the corner we want to see. But if somehow we could "turn" and look at what's behind us—we might see something so strange, we wouldn't understand it in a million years.

Your imagination must, to some extent, be found in a realm beyond reason because it begins with imagining a future reality: the self that you might become.

Anything past the horizon is invisible, it can only be imagined. You want to see the future but you only see the sky.

These are the dreams we should be having. I shouldn't have to clean them up like this.

Trust is a foundation of leadership. We trust that a leader is honest, able, and has a vision of where to go. But trust operates on an even deeper level. We trust that a leader is who he appears to be, that the public person and the private one are the same.

You have to be able to roll your eyes up into your skull, down the inside of the back of your head, up your jawbone, and into the sockets again. That's how the writers wrote the character, and the producers have too much integrity to alter the conception.

PLANS HAVE TO BE REALISTIC; DREAMS DON'T

IF YOU DON'T PLAN YOUR PLAN, IT WILL REMAIN A DREAM

Imagination creates reality.

The person who would like to make his dreams come true must stay awake.

I gave him a smile that I hoped was as dazzling as one of his. "I realized I'm in love." Marcus, startled, looked around as though he expected to see my object d'amour in the car with us. "And you just realized this? Did you just have some sort of vision?" "Didn't need to," I said, thinking of Wolfe's ill-fated trip to the Orkneys. "It's always been right in front of me.