Quotes About Vision

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

Professionally, I like doing one thing at a time and enjoy directing the most.

To be on a sound footing, one must have one's perceptions of life clear, and a strong foundation. That is all that ultimately matters, not only in modelling, but in other professions as well.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

To realize President Obama's vision of opportunity for all, it's all about making the right match. The way we do that is through job-driven training - connecting ready-to-work Americans with ready to be-filled jobs. It helps more people secure a foothold in the middle class and helps businesses to profit and grow.

My dream is to make the world sound better, but the only way to do that is to let businesses see that there is profit in it.

I just want to make a difference. I want to make Chrysler the most profitable car company in the United States.

I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.

Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.

I'm willing to lose profits in the short term.

I'm not an expert in instruments, beat programming, or electronics. For some people it's all about doing it themselves. But for me, it's all about find the people that can help make my vision come true.

I wouldn't necessarily say that 'Alpha House' or 'Betas' embodied a particular vision of Amazon of the kind of brand or programming they were gonna do. I think those were the first lucky creators who hit it right for them.

I am not sure what the future holds for me personally, but I envision myself continuing to work on spaceflight programs.

Every country needs a strong leader in order to progress.

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.

As Democrats and progressives look to the future, we should remember our most essential values.

The more senior your management position is, the more important it is to connect the organization or the project to the outside world. You know, how does this fit in with what we're doing? What is the real goal, the real mission?

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

Usually, with me, the project is always the second thing. The film-maker comes first. Films grow out of the relationship.