Quotes About Vision

Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. If one could but recall (t)his vision by some sort of sign. It was in this hope that the arts were invented. Sign-posts on the way to what may be. Sign-posts toward greater knowledge.

Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. If one could but recall his vision by some sort of sign. It was in this hope that the arts were invented.

The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence... We make our discoveries while in the state because then we are clear-sighted.

How difficult it was to hold the eyes focussed on that far horizon when this world lay in the foreground so compelling in its splendour and its strength!

Nothing dates faster than people's fantasies about the future.

As Max DePree, former CEO of furniture maker Herman Miller, put it, "The first job of a leader is to define reality.

Vu ja de means seeing old things that are inside and outside the company in new ways.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. —Henry David Thoreau

managers continue to use methods that force people to see old things in old ways, expecting new and profitable ideas somehow to magically appear.

When someone at the Directors' College asked Campbell about the most crucial skill for a senior executive, he said it was the rare ability (which Jobs had in spades) to make sure that the short-term stuff gets done and done well, while simultaneously never losing sight of the big picture.

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination...they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building--steadily building.

His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. – Revelation 19:12

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day. – Revelation 1:10

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

When they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only. – Matthew 17:8

Now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. – 1 Corinthians 13:12

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

First you must have the images, then come the words.

vision, without which we perish, is required to open us to willingness to use what we know and to work to extract hard reality from a dream.

Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.

The variable that marks some periods as barren and some as rich in prophetic vision is in the interest, the level of seeking, the responsiveness of the hearers. The variable is not in the presence or absence or the relative quality and force of the prophetic voices. The prophet grows in stature as people respond to his message...It is the seekers, then, who make the prophet.