Quotes About Vision

Despite the scope of his vision, Pierpont was extremely attentive to details and took pride in the knowledge that he could perform any job in the bank:

Once he had made up his mind, however, he was no longer troubled by doubts and pursued his vision with undeviating faith.

He believed there was a time to think and then a time to act. He brooded over problems and quietly matured plans over extended periods. Once he had made up his mind, however, he was no longer troubled by doubts and pursued his vision with undeviating faith. Unfortunately, once in that state of mind, he was all but deaf to criticism. He was like a projectile that, once launched, could never be stopped, never recalled, never diverted.

Rockefeller succeeded because he believed in the long-term prospects of the business and never treated it as a mirage that would soon fade.

Already contemplating the future, Rockefeller wanted to be surrounded by trustworthy people who could inspire confidence in customers and bankers alike.

Throughout his career, Hamilton had been an unusually tolerant man with enlightened views on slavery, native Americans, and Jews. His whole vision of American manufacturing had been predicated on immigration.

You're not a realist, she says. You're a dreamer who doesn't believe in the dream.

The big guys like Google weren't always big. Once they were two kids in a garage. Or a dorm room. Some of them set out to be billionaires from the get-go, but some of them didn't. Some of them got just caught up in solving an interesting problem, which happened to be worth billions later.

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A guy who was taught the front-sight mantra might focus so hard he could lose his peripheral vision.

There was nothing in the fourth stack. Not even a possible. A hundred and sixty gone by. Neagley slid the final forty into place. Reacher watched Klopp. One card at a time, left thumb and index finger, held easy, not near and not far. Decent vision, with his glasses on. Genuine concentration. Not a bored blank stare or an impatient sneer. A calm focus. He was interrogating the photographs, one by one, point by point. Eyes, cheek bones, mouth. Yes or no. No

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A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

Leibniz had a vision of a world in which everything lives not in space but immersed in a network of relationships.

This is the enemy, what is irreversible, what has already reached the farthest of places. There is no going back. They can bomb bus-loads of tourists, burn the American flag, but they are not shooting the enemy. It is already with them, inside them, what makes them resentful, defensive, what makes them no longer confident of their vision of the world.

As Francis Schaeffer reminded us, "The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two

A pygmy upon a gyants shoulder may see farther than the [giant] himself.

The devil ought not to be in our line of vision but in our shadow.

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

You can't up-up-and-away in creativity and innovation without spending down-on-the-ground time in the muck and the mire.

Whatever God calls you to do, it's going to be bigger than you are.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.