Quotes About Vision

I feel that you will be a maker, not a seer. You must promise me that it will be so. Promise me that you will not give in. Promise me that you will never give up hope.

The best way to predict future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln

SEE THROUGH THE FOG

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle in your own heart. Say to God, "If you will give me a vision of what a godly spouse would look like, then I'm willing to make changes." Then read the Bible and look for those passages that tell you what a Christian husband or wife should be. Let this be your dream, and meditate on it throughout the day. Ask God to help you live up to his model.

Abraham Lincoln said, "The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Seeing and inspiring the best in others requires God's vision. — Dena Netherton —

New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23

There's no such thing as "sustaining" leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.

Don't let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.

Other people labeled things impossible not because they couldn't be done, but because no one was doing them.

Restoring a sense of mission and vision for the future is a crucial challenge that must be accomplished if the church has any chance of survival. Calling the congregation back to the mission of the church and developing a new vision for the future is essential.

Tomorrow. He watched the flames and smiled. Tomorrow I'll see. All things come tomorrow.

You dream of a desert, where mirages are your rulers and tormentors, yet these images come from you.

The imagination is ceaselessly imagining and enriching itself with new images. It is this wealth of imagined being that I should like to explore.

Toujours, imaginer sera plus grand que vivre.

L'imagination est une force première. Elle doit naître dans la solitude de l'être imaginant.

The Phantom: 'You know, Christine, I think I have hallucinations.

Many modern artists, philosophers, and theologians reject the knowledge of the past. Thus they must continually start over again from ground zero, their vision restricted to their own narrow perspectives, making themselves artificially primitive.

Tears were coursing down the faces of Kennedy's moonstruck recruits. John Kennedy had inspired us with his vision. One by one, we left work to grieve in private. The flag was at half-staff in our hearts.

Dorothea Lange said that 'the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?