Quotes About Vision

It is no challenge to lead when everybody is with you. Liberal

The skill of foresight is crucial. The "lead" that a leader has is his ability to foresee an event that must be dealt with before others see it so that he can act on it his way, the right way, while the initiative is his.

International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal principles of economics, domestic politics, and international relations over other, nonliberal principles. It will last only as long as those who imposed it retain the capacity to defend it.

The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.

The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.

Energizing conversations often revolve around a vision or goal, which must be compelling enough to capture people's aspirations but not so grand that it is seen as infeasible or so daunting that it creates stress.

Submission to the power of the mature masculine energies always brings forth a new masculine personality that is marked by calm, compassion, clarity of vision, and generativity.

I had not been thinking or speaking of the Chinese or the heathen world, but as I awoke with that vision on my mind, I did tremble with the Holy Spirit, and I threw myself on my knees, and every fiber of my being answered, "Yes, Lord, I will go."22

Rome, if built at all, must be built in a day.

No ease for the boy at the keyhole, his telescope, when the women's white bodies flashed in the bathroom. Young, my eyes began to fail. Nothing! No oil for the eye, nothing to pour on those waters or flames. I am tired. Everyone's tired of my turmoil.

I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

You must shape your story in a way that both expresses your vision and satisfies the audience's desires.

intimate or epic the setting, instinctively the audience draws a circle around the characters and their world, a circumference of experience that's defined by the nature of the fictional reality. This line may reach inward to the soul, outward into the universe, or in both directions at once. The audience, therefore, expects the storyteller to be an artist of vision who can take his story to those distant depths and ranges.

It was a singular point of view that made all the difference over a lifetime.

they can't see the opportunity staring them in the face.

Money is an idea that is more clearly seen with your mind.

Most people have an opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it.

There is gold everywhere. Most people are not trained to see it.

Usually, city lights and smog block the stars, but last night a full moon shone overhead. Gazing upward, I had a vision of pockets of poverty shrinking like puddles in the sun.

I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe the tear from every eye.

Without new visions, we don't know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless, and cynical, but we forget that making a revolution is not a series of clever maneuvers and tactics, but a process that can and must transform us

HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to....

Your Chalice, Master, sees all things clearly, which is both her strength and her weakness.

Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries.