Quotes About Vision

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! I

A writer] should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, they will succeed.

You ought to dream," Bill said. "All our biggest business men have been dreamers. Look at Ford. Look at President Coolidge. Look at Rockefeller. Look at Jo Davidson.

Those who lack gratitude's vision do not possess things; things possess them. And that is misery.

No dreaming may stand still, for this bodes no good. But if it becomes a dreaming ahead, then its cause appears quite differently and excitingly alive. The dim and weakening features, which may be characteristic of mere yearning, disappears; and then yearning can show what it really is able to accomplish.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

The warrior knows that their imagination is not a place to escape but to create.

The future awaits those with the courage to create it.

We do not argue about what happened in the past but discuss what we desire for the future.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.

The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.

I love you, sweetheart, love you to distraction. Poor darling, don't worry! That's what she said when she left me. She turned and went, in her blue dress, the smile of love on her lips. Oh! If only it would leave me, that vision of parting grace! She could not tear her love from her heart, from her heart she could not tear it, never from her heart could such love be torn, never, never, never!

In dreams begin responsibilities," as the poet Yeats said,

Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind.

One person sees the beautiful view and the other sees the dirty window

She believes that they are caught in an emotional timewarp without the necessary vision to appreciate the changes that have take place in society.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Every poet — every storyteller — requires motivation.

This is a time to try men of force and vision and not to be exclusively confined to those who are judged safe by conventional standards.

Never confuse leadership with popularity.'158

Napoleon taught ordinary people that they could make history, and convinced his followers they were taking part in an adventure, a pageant, an experiment, an epic whose splendour would draw the attention of posterity for centuries to come.

The future is a matter of contempt for those with courage. - Napoleon Bonaparte.

The replacement of corporate heads is far more motivated by the need to bring in someone who is not invested in the past than to get somebody who is a better manager or a better leader in other ways.