Quotes About Vision

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.

I found in the collaboration was that Amos frequently saw the point of my vague ideas much more clearly than I did.

Michotte had a different idea: he argued that we see causality, just as directly as we see color.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

To see is to experience the world as it is, to remember is to experience the world as it was, but to imagine-ah, to imagine is to experience the world as it isn't and has never been, but as it might be. The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future.

The bottom line is this: the brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

We use our eyes to look into space and our imaginations to look into time.

Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant. Shakespeare, Macbeth

No science can explain the drawn-out phases of a large-dose ibogaine trip, the twenty-hour passage from vision to insight, experienced almost universally.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. ALBERT EINSTEIN

As one philosopher noted, the human brain is an "anticipation machine," and "making future" is the most important thing it does.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

Dreams are what keep a man going.

Mine was a crazy dream- but what dream isn't crazy? Can a dream be a dream and be sensible? No. A sensible dream is a plan. Men like us dream, and our dreams come true because we believe in ourselves.

He was a man with a tin-ear present who dreamed of a rock-opera future.

Yet we can reasonably hope that our ideas, which wait up ahead, will make a clearing for desire.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. —T. E. LAWRENCE, SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM

A central credo of Hitler's new SS was the Blood Myth, which evoked the twin visions of racial fastidiousness and combat on a cosmic stage. It

Please understand: I wear glasses. This was no place for a man with glasses.

There's honour amongst the myopic. You can trust us. We're honest about our disability – not like people who wear contact lenses, the deceitful bastards.

Si no amas lo que tienes, Dios nunca te permitirá llegar a lo que deseas. Si no bendices tu Lea, tu realidad, nunca tendrás fruto con tu visión ni con tu sueño.

I realized how little I knew of what makes a true missionary statesman; of a faith that never staggers at the promise of God, no matter how incredible to the natural man its fulfilment seems; of a trust in the Unchanging One, Who keeps the heart at rest and unperturbed in a changing world; of a burning love that counts not life dear unto itself, but is expendable for God; and of a vision that is never dimmed.

In leadership, energy is one of the essential ingredients needed for bringing any sense of new to the table. It's energy that produces excitement in others. You

when the why we do what we do doesn't permeate in all that we do, our value systems give evidence that we do not have enough truth to successfully support what we do and who we are. Our own lack of truth then becomes a stumbling block to sharing the knowledge, vision, and passions behind whatever it is we do and whoever it is we are. We cannot give away what we do not own, and that's why we need to have our own "faith stories" to pass on. As