Quotes About Vision

I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

You can learn a lot from Pep Guardiola. From pre-season to the match itself. He has a vision of the game that is impressive.

Alex Ferguson, Mourinho, Pep you can always see the vision.

I have done so many great things compared to many leaders. But I didn't do 1 per cent of what I am dreaming.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

Blackstone is not really a business per se. It's a mission to be the best.

What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming.

I perceive myself as rather uninhibited, with a certain mathematical facility and more interest in the broad aspect of a problem than the delicate nuances. I am more interested in discovering what is over the next rise than in assiduously cultivating the beautiful garden close at hand.

That's the best way to work on a project: talk to the director. In the end, it's the director's idea of how they perceive the movie and how they perceive the characters.

One of the clear problems of Obamacare is that it was perceived, I think rightly, as one party forcing its vision of how healthcare should be upon the rest of the country.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.

I've always wanted a perfect life.

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

If you're going to invest in something over a long period of time, that you believe is important and can change the company, you have to be strategically patient and tactically impatient.

What I do is create images, period.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.

My peripheral vision has been severely limited because of my diabetes, which means I can see just fine looking straight ahead. But if I am at a function with lots of people, I am constantly bumping into people - even kicking them!

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.