Quotes About Vision

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

Un tempo avevo occhi molto buoni. Quello che hanno visto è un altro discorso. L'esperienza mi ha insegnato che si può guardar succedere qualcosa senza nemmeno vederlo.

So many dreams are crowding upon me now that I can scarcely tell true from false: dreams like light imprisoned in bright mineral caves; hot, heavy dreams; ice-age dreams; dreams like machines in the head.

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can't really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.

A leader needs to look beyond his own kind, needs the obedience of everyone

You can plant a dream.

and there it was one of those moments that is the opposite of blindness. The world poured back and forth between their eyes once or twice.

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. ISAIAH 6:1

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted. ISAIAH 6:1

After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward." GENESIS 15:1

Too low they build who build beneath the stars. MRS. CHARLES E. COWMAN , Streams in the Desert

E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Only dreamers can teach us to soar.

Jack was the only person she knew with an imagination, at least a real one. The only tea parties he'd have were ones in Wonderland, or the Arctic, or in the darkest reaches of space. He was the only person who saw things for what they could be instead of just what they were. He saw what lived beyond the edges of the things your eyes took in. And though they eventually grew out of Wonderland Arctic space-people tea parties, that essential thing remained the same. Hazel fit with Jack.

You know that Chinese proverb, "A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step"? Turns out, if we were contemplating a thousand-mile walk, we'd be better off imagining ourselves looking back from the destination and figuring how we got there. When it comes to advance thinking, standing at the end and looking backward is much more effective than looking forward from the beginning.

Goals can also cause a myopia that makes it so we can't see other paths that are available to us, the other opportunities we might be able to pursue instead.

To be happy, I've discovered, you've got to run toward something: meaningful work; a hopeful, inspiring vision of your future; and good relationships with the people you work with every day.

Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare.

Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.