Quotes About Vision

Even if we could memorize the map, it's hard to know where we're going without having seen inside ahead of time.

Great leaders make decisions ...

Stay away from people with tiny minds and tiny thoughts and start hanging out with people who see limitless possibility as the reality.

Design your own job. If you see things in your company that need doing that aren't being done, create a new job for yourself. Come up with an excellent pitch about all the ways this will benefit the company and help them make craploads of money, and name your salary. You never know, stranger things have happened.

Your job is to envision your life with all the specifics you can muster up so you can get all emotional and excited and take inspired action.

Faith is having the audacity to believe in the not-yet seen.

Did the crows' bill shape and specialized vision predispose them to tool crafting and use? Or did their tool-use behavior in response to unusual ecological opportunity—those delicious hidden grubs—gradually shape their visual system and bills? This is the sort of mysterious causal relationship biologists both love and hate.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

The imagination is not a single mental phenomenon or skill, but multifactorial, a constellation of related activities contributing constitutively to the full dimensionality of human consciousness and our relations to the world.

Teach me about the delights," Sinclair said after a time, his voice low. "I can't see the wonders anymore. Show me what you see, Bertie. Please.

The world is never ready for any innovation," he grumbled. "The vast majority of people stubbornly cling to the past until people possessing foresight and a sense of adventure break a trail and bring them into the future.

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

Very. I ground the lenses myself. The left gives you hindsight; the right, foresight.

Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.

Now there are permanent gray smudges in Scotty's vision. He says he likes them--actually, what he says is: "I consider them a visual enhancement." We think they remind him of his mom.

This vision tumbled over Phoebe with the force of revelation: she would stand somewhere and look back, she would live a life.

It was starting to rain, big sloppy drops spilling onto the windshield. No thunder yet. His driving was stymied by a clobbering sensation of loss. But what exactly had he lost? Himself as he had been, firm-bodied and flabby-minded? Some clarity of vision he once had possessed? Or was it the old, dormant chamber of his bicameral mind calling out to him, reminding him of the days when rocks and trees and statues had spoken with the voices of gods?

She says, My job is to show you a door you can open. And she taps the top of her head. It leads wherever you want it to go, she says.

I see now that the place I've been yearning for is my own imagination.

In study after study, researchers find that if people are unclear about where they are going, they'll just default to their old patterns and habits.

If we regard vision itself as an embodied, enactive, and, in specific ways, imaginatively endowed process, there is no contradiction in recognizing at the same time that we can learn, through painting, to see differently, and that we rely on our stable, biologically grounded capacities in so doing.

It's not magic; it's hard work by vested people who share a vision for God's kingdom in their city. An influential church is nothing more than a bunch of believers who get in the game and live on mission.

Ayer los dos soñábamos con un mundo perfecto . . . (Yesterday, we were dreaming a perfect world . . .) —"QUÉ HICISTE

you have to see the world to change it.