Quotes About Vision

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

He has the vision and energy to make Germany great.

Only Poe could have dreamed the rest.

I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future," he wrote. "In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

You'll see it lovely. I never will. But it will be lovely.

His letter to Rice began, "I have on hand a great project for the World's Fair in Chicago. I am going to build a vertically revolving wheel 250' in dia." Nowhere in this letter, however, did he reveal the true dimension of his vision:

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

Burnham's frequent admonition: "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood." Burnham

Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir ine's blood.

In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.

Man must always imagine and believe in a second reality or a better world than the one that is given him by nature.

It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now. But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center. And we'd better get ready. We need to know where we'd like to go.

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

You ought to dream.

He wanted to write about country so it would be there like Cezanne had done it in a painting. You have to do it from inside yourself... You could do it if you wanted to fight for it. If you'd lived right with your eyes.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The hell there isn't!

All my life the early sun has hurt my eyes, he thought. Yet they are still good. In the evening I can look straight into it without getting the blackness. It has more force in the evening too. But in the morning it is painful.

Sus ojos podían continuar mirando y mirando cuando todos los demás ojos hubiesen dejado de mirar.