Quotes About Vision

The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18 KJV)

And part of brilliance isn't just solving a problem; it's seeing a problem no one else realizes is a problem yet.

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.

In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.

I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many people are just grateful to have a job.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction?

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.