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Quotes About Vision

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
~ Henry Kissinger
A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
~ Rossiter W. Raymond
The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
~ Joseph Batten
And in today already walks tomorrow.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.
~ Nido R Qubein
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
~ Confucius
The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.
~ Will Smith
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
~ Bernard Baruch
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.
~ Henri Nouwen
Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.
~ Samuel
If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.
~ Steve Jobs
Blessed are the dreamers, and cursed be the man who opens their eyes. True, the dreamers cannot save us, neither they nor their disciples, but without dreams and without dreamers the curse that lies upon us would be seven times heavier. Thanks to the dreamers, maybe we who are awake are a little less ossified and desperate than we would be without them.
~ Amos Oz
Whatever the motivation factor, the specific ratio of grief to cruelty is immaterial. i left Ray, without warning, as he slept. Out of sight isn't out of mind but it's out of the line of vision, which is something. Because you can keep quite busy like this. Moving forward.
~ Amy Koppelman
I realized then that we miss so much of life while we are part of it. We fail to see ninety percent of the glories of nature, for to do so would require vision that is simultaneously telescopic and microscopic.
~ Amy Tan
There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.
~ Anais Nin
My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea, and my eyes are the color of water.
~ Anais Nin
The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.
~ Anais Nin
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with, we cease to see.
~ Anais Nin
safe there from inquiry and exposure? But in this jungle, a pair of eyes, not her own, had followed and found her. Her mother's eyes. She had first seen the world through her mother's eyes, and seen herself through her mother's eyes. Children were like kittens, at first they did not have vision, they did not see themselves except reflected in the eyes of the parents.
~ Anais Nin
The white man had invented glasses which made objects too near or too far, cameras, telescopes, spyglasses, objects which put glass between living and vision. It was the image he sought to possess, not the texture, the living warmth, the human closeness.
~ Anais Nin
I can see, I can see that it is in this distorted vision of the world's proper proportions that lies the secret of our fears. We make the animals bigger with our fears. We make our creations and our loves smaller, we shrink by our vision, and enlarge and shrink according to the whims of our interchangeable vision, not according to an immutable law of growth. The size of each world we live in is individual and relative, and the objects and people vary in each EYE.
~ Anais Nin
Mi mente no debe morir porque soy escritora. Soy el poeta que necesita ver.
~ Anais Nin
he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work.
~ Anais Nin