Quotes About Vision

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.

The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in literally with nothing in my brain about what the building will look like.

Obviously, if you look at the history of rail in the U.S., it took courageous entrepreneurs to have that vision of connecting the whole nation from east to west.

One of the most important things in the digital world is being able to story-tell and help people envision the art of the possible with respect to different technologies.

There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.

I try to just focus on what feels right to me when I am conceiving it, conceptualizing, designing, etc. and then talk it through with the team and listen to what they have to say. This kind of thing is a team effort, and working with a great team is the most important part of filmmaking for me.

The one thing I had pure in my life was creativity.

One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.

For me, the one thing I've got going for me in terms of my attributes as a musician is vision.

When one was looking at getting out of media, I took a fair amount of time to figure out what I want to do for the next 20 years... the one thing I am very passionate about is entrepreneurship in this country.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.

I think the only directing I'd be any good at is theatre directing. It's the only thing I can see myself doing.

The problem with the Dorises and the Nicki Minajes and Mileys is that they reach their goal very quickly. There is no long-term vision, and they forget that once you get into that whirlpool, then you have to fight the system that solidifies around you in order to keep being the outsider you claim you represent.

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.

I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.

If you're a documenter, you're taking a video of something in the real world you want to capture. If you're a director, you're trying to create something in the real world.

I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing.

I discovered a long time ago that if I focus on doing the right thing for the long term to improve the lives of consumers and customers all over the world, the business results will come.