Quotes About Vision

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

You can't be what you can't see.

Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed; Forsake this wrist, forsake this rhyme; Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, But climb.

Una cosa es planear las cosas en la cama, en las noches de desvelo, con los ojos clavados en el techo. Ejecutar el plan con el que soñamos es otra cosa bien distinta.

I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

She fasted on the mesa rim, waiting for a vision, and fasted some more, and after a time God appeared incarnate on a platter as a roasted squab with white paper booties on His little drumsticks.

There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light which it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

Having essential goals in mind makes daily decisions clearer.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets

Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.

Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

Behold, this dreamer cometh.

There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.

Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales.

The chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more.

[The devil] showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see — and hits it.

A dreamer of dreams.

Safety glasses: making foresight 20/20.

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light.

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.