Quotes About Vision

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

When your leadership appeals to only one generation, you are limiting your leadership in the future. Leading cross-generationally occurs when you are able to lead people in your own generation, the generation that came before you, and the generation that comes behind you. Connecting to all generations is what forward leaders will do.

We need to think of imagination not as the faculty that produces visual or auditory images but as a combination of novelty and luck.

We need to think of imagination not as the faculty that produces visual or auditory images but as a combination of novelty and luck. To be imaginative, as opposed to being merely fantastical is to do something new and to be lucky enough to have that novelty be adopted by one's fellow humans, incorporated into their social practices.

I feel, in a word, the need as [Wladyslaw] Heine would say, to "say something great" Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I feel that within me there is maturing a completely new and original form which dispenses with the usual formulas and patterns and breaks them down Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I feel with utter certainty that something is there, that something will be born.*

L'acte le plus révolutionnaire est une vision claire du monde tel qu'il est réellement

I want to affect people like a clap of thunder, to inflame their minds with the breadth of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression.

I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die-- the dream of freedom and peace.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

To stay ahead, always have your next idea waiting in the wings.

The world is not getting better by itself. Making the world a better place demands more and better leaders.

Given such strong defenses against change, fresh ideas come from those who do more than think outside the box. They think outside the building.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.

In the pursuit of objectives under a vision, playing is relevant to the manifestation of the possibility, winning is not.

If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what can be, for the eye, which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility? —SØREN KIERKEGAARD, Either/Or

Leaders who become their vision often seem uncommonly brave to the rest of us.

VISION IS A powerful framework to take the operations of an organization of any size from the downward spiral into the arena of possibility. Yet, while most organizations use the term "vision" liberally, we have found that few have articulated a vision in such a way that it serves that purpose.

I have never seen the truth," said Damien, "without crossing my eyes. Life is crazy.

You have to have your head in the clouds to shoot for the stars

Her eyes astar with dreams

E ela era mais rica naqueles sonhos do que na realidade, pois o que os olhos veem é passageiro, mas o que não veem é eterno.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting

It's better to imagine than to know.