Quotes About Vision

On the other hand, those who reject the present and fix their eyes and hearts on things to come have a faculty for detecting the embryo of future danger or advantage in the ripeness of their times.

Hitler, who had a clear vision of the whole course of a movement even while he was nursing his infant National Socialism, warned that a movement retains its vigor only so long as it can offer nothing in the present—only "honor and fame in the eyes of posterity

Strength of faith, as Bergson pointed out, manifests itself not in moving mountains but in not seeing mountains to move.

needs the iron will, daring and vision of an exceptional leader to concert and mobilize existing attitudes and impulses into the collective drive of a mass movement.

There is no question that the best project managers are also outstanding leaders. They have vision, they motivate, they bring people together, and, most of all, they accomplish great things.

The anxiety engendered by confronting the abyss of nothingness [of the loss of self] is more terrifying than the tortures of hell. In the vision of hell, I am punished and tortured—In the vision of nothingness I am driven to the border of madness—because I cannot say 'I' any more.

He dreamed of becoming a fully illustrated man.

The most accurate way to know the future is to create it.

There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."

went to the window off the porch, and I saw

No one should have to look back to see the bright future ahead of them.

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

I doubt if any child is born without some measure of that vision and faculty divine which apprehends the supernatural.

What do dreams know of boundaries

I ask myself, is it just a wild flight of imagination to conceive of a world without war … but someone must try … " Julia Grace Wales

When Van Gogh painted The Starry Night as a swirling mass of cosmic energy, he may have been painting what he saw with neurotic eyes, but he was also painting what he saw with transcendent eyes. The first gave his painting mere form, the second gave it formless, universal emotion that connects directly to the viewer.

I am an idea without hands.

My vision of the future was like the paintings I'd seen of the Old West, mysterious, serious, with great beauty at every vista and terrible things happening whenever any people appeared.)

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see...

But maybe cotton candy dreams show a person where the bones of real dreams may lie. Maybe if they had steel in their hearts and spines, they could build a skyscraper out of dreams and put that steel in the girders and the clear glass of vision in the windows, and the bedrock of their faith in the foundation.

Truth is a broken mirror, but it can still help anyone to see clearly.

People in the late first century, watching the Gospel of Luke performed, would be laughing. Try explaining, through hand motions, the angelic vision yourselves, and then try not to smile.

what Morocco needs is real statesman

Dreams are a never ending portal.