Quotes About Vision

Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.

You can use your imagination to get exactly what you desire.

Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head.

Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

May I meet him with one tooth and it aching, and one eye to be seeing seven and seventy divils in the twists of the road, and one old timber leg on him to limp into the scalding grave. There he is now crossing the strands, and that the Lord God would send a high wave to wash him from the world.

Mammon, the least erected spirit that fellFrom heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughtsWere always downward bent, admiring moreThe riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold,Than aught divine or holy else enjoyedIn vision beatific.

Methought I saw my late espoused saintBrought to me like Alcestis from the grave.

A poet soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision.

In our time, when men have looked upon earth from afar, seeing it as a small, glistening sphere spinning in the black sea of space, it requires a long backward flight of the imagination to appreciate earlier perceptions of earth. They were visions of wonder and myth, and often they were marvelously wrong.

A guiding coalition with good managers but poor leaders will not succeed. A managerial mindset will develop plans, not vision; it will vastly undercommunicate the need for and direction of change; and it will control rather than empower people.

Failure here is usually associated with underestimating the difficulties in producing change and thus the importance of a strong guiding coalition.

A useful rule of thumb: Whenever you cannot describe the vision driving a change initiative in five minutes or less and get a reaction that signifies both understanding and interest, you are in for trouble.

Develop the Change Vision and Strategy. Clarify how the future will be different from the past, and how you can make that future a reality. Consider: What would be the equivalent of becoming nomads and being "free"? Is that better future attractive enough? Do we have a credible path to achieve that goal?

Communicate for Understanding and Buy-In. Make sure as many others as possible understand and accept the vision and the strategy. Go beyond "stopping resistance" to creating more and more people who want to help you.

John P. Kotter

If you cannot describe your vision to someone in five minutes and get their interest, you have more work to do in this phase of a transformation process.

A useful rule of thumb: Whenever you cannot describe the vision driving a change initiative in five minutes or less and get a reaction that signifies both understanding and interest, you are in for trouble. Error

Empower Others to Act. Remove as many barriers as possible so that those who want to make the vision a reality can do so. Encourage others to remove barriers and make true innovation happen.

Uniqueness Leads To Great Success Some men see things as they are and say 'why?' I dream things that never were, and say, 'why not?' --George Bernard Shaw English Dramatist (1856-1950)

Revelation births creativity.

the "cloud of witnesses" (Hebrews 12:1). Their dreaming did not predict the future according to the present. Instead, quite the opposite is true. They changed present reality by living according to a vision of the future. We are told that this is "faith