Quotes About Vision

As the church in reform draws closer to its core confession, it inescapably embraces its most radical vision that violates and contradicts conventional practice in its social context. What makes such reform difficult, moreover, is the fact that while we ponder the radical core claims of faith, we ourselves are variously enmeshed in conventional practices that are inimical to the gospel.

Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?

requires both the outrageousness of God and the daily work of decreasing so that Jesus and God's vision of peace may increase.

Jesus astonishes his contemporaries by his capacity to see and act beyond conventional assumptions.

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose ... to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist. Let us together desire, conceive, and create the new building of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will rise one day toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

Steve Jobs: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Out job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Vision without execution is hallucination. .. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo [da Vinci] knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history's consummate innovator.

Curzon stood up. He gestured with a fist. "I don't want you to think about anything," he said. "I want you to feel. Feel the rightness of this. The correctness of this vision. The necessity of it." Steward could see patches of sweat under Curzon's arms. "I want you to sense, Steward, that this is something worth having.

May I ask what role you envision for the Jedi in this war Two words Skywalker. None whatsoever. Luke Rodan

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

And so you try as hard as you can to separate out what you wish from what is actually there, never abandoning your ultimate dreams for the film, but trying as hard as you can to see what is actually on the screen.

Para ver claro, basta con cambiar la dirección de la mirada. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

There were bickerings, outright fights, screaming tantrums, but Ted's vision of the Greater Denishawn had come true.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

one of the most important things a leader can do is project a clear and distinctive point of view that others can follow. But that clear vision is arrived at, and constantly modified and sharpened, through deep reflection and questioning.

At the same time, as Yamashita points out, it's just as important to look forward when asking big questions about purpose. He urges clients to work on Whom must we fearlessly become? That can be a difficult challenge, he says, because it requires "envisioning a version of the company that does not exist yet.

In order for imagination to flourish,37 there must be an opportunity to see things as other than they currently are or appear to be. This begins with a simple question: What if? It is a process of introducing something strange and perhaps even demonstrably untrue into our current situation or perspective.

Keith Yamashita says companies can try to find their cause by asking, What does the world hunger for?

The What If stage is the blue-sky moment of questioning, when anything is possible. Those possibilities may not survive the more practical How stage; but it's critical to innovation that there be a time for wild, improbable ideas to surface and to inspire.

Bugger this. I want a better world.