Quotes About Vision

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

The person you see is the person you will be.

Think like the person you intend to become.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

When I am asked what my vision for the Brooklyn Tabernacle is, I always respond, "I don't have one. Last time I read my Bible, it said it was Christ's church, not mine.

Innovation delivers products that we can barely imagine. Efficiency and optimization are appropriate drivers for a production project, whereas innovation and creativity should drive an exploration-type project. A production mindset can restrict our vision to what appears doable. An exploration mindset helps us explore what seems impossible.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. —Daniel H. Burnham

Aspire to be the leader your team wants and the brand deserves.

Whatever your level of leadership, use your influence to move the company from strategy-based to culture-focused.

The greatest accelerant to a cultural flame is leadership.

Don't get stuck in the past. Celebrate the company's history (heritage), but focus primarily on the present and future (culture).

A single leader with a great idea can start a cultural revolution.

Leaders have the power to light up or extinguish the cultural flame of a company.

Own the place. Act as if you started (or own) the business; this will create added focus, commitment, inspiration and guidance to crafting the right culture.

So while it was clear that Raymond had a vision, Jeffery still had a hard time working out precisely what vision that might be. Is he a genius or a complete idiot? And, for that matter, what would you call Jeffery for thinking all of this?

Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.

Wrote that last entry in a running scribble that looks like a foreign language backward. If anybody reads it in the future, they will surely need good, thick glasses.

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

great legacy starts with a great life, and every great life starts with a great plan.

I defy you to find a statue or a monument ever erected to anyone because they were realistic. All dreamers, all achievers, all great people kept their child-like faith in their own dream and their ability to carry it out, and these great people had an inordinate gift to disregard the word's cries for reality.

what makes the great motivators so, well, motivating is their ability to help others find their own personal motivation every day. It is that personal motivation that inspires people to have a vision of what they want to achieve, work hard and prepare well so they have not only a clear direction in sight, but also the actual wherewithal to get where they want to go.

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.