Quotes About Vision

the way to inscribe the will of God on the hearts of people in this world is not by way of law or vote but by way of redemption through Jesus. Jesus' kingdom vision is for his redeemed people and for them alone.

A Christian is someone who follows Jesus by devoting his or her One. Life to the kingdom vision of Jesus.

In Revelation we enter his incredible imagination and see what God wants his people to see.

For Jesus the word kingdom meant "God's dream for this world come true.

Someone has to define what we're trying to get to and clarify which ideas are both more and less important in completing that vision.

I couldn't help but consider what Washington Roebling, one of the engineers of the Brooklyn Bridge, once wrote: "Man is after all a finite being in capacities and powers of doing actual work. But when it comes to planning, one mind can in a few hours think out enough work to keep a thousand men employed for years."2

What was the vision for our team? What big goals would we sign up for? I wanted to decide this in Athens, as a team with Matt in person. I wanted us to make big bets and show the company we could have visions of cathedrals and build them with bazaar methods. What I didn't want was to spend days riffing on yet more ideas, only to return home was as much ambiguity as when we'd arrived. The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

To start big projects, you must have the capacity for delusion. All the rational people, despite their brilliance, are too reasonable to start crazy things. And working against us in this sense was that we'd spent the day walking in the footsteps of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, spurring us all to believe in our grandest dreams.

Lame visions have no integrity: they don't offer a plan, and they don't express an opinion.

After years of leading projects, the best thing I've learned is that I have to periodically shift between thinking small (bazaar) and thinking long term (cathedral).

To start big projects, you must have the capacity for delusion. All the rational people, despite their brilliance, are too reasonable to start crazy things.

You are not your camera nor is your photography your camera. Nobody who matters cares what camera you use.

You see, i f you have t rue photographic vision, you have clar i ty and i f you have clarity, you don't need to explain or defend your images. Clar i ty is about what emot ions or feel ings the image is t rying to evoke, not the fact s behind the image. Photographic clar i ty is about passion of purpose. I t 's about a single-minded desi re to protect a memory. I t 's about story tel l ing wi th a camera that 's so power ful , no words are necessary.

so there we are, golden drones droning in unison. this is the West man, the pinnacle of civilization. this is where it started man. Come visit my culture. come culture my vision. we all own Automobiles here too. 87 greyhounds died in a fire today. someone lost some bucks.

reality is often little more than a mirror reflecting visions made of ice and steel cold permanent and carefully contrived

You can launch your company with tremendous passion for the business. You can execute your vision flawlessly. But if you don't have a plan for learning, you won't be able to keep up with a constantly adjusting market, and you can become irrelevant very quickly.

UNLOCKING YOUR IDEA

so what's your big idea?

The key to success as an entrepreneur is finding an opportunity, and when you find it, executing like crazy.

The experience made one thing crystal clear: You have to envision the focal point of your life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.

If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they simply would have said a faster horse. —attributed to Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company Your

There are actually some women in the world with four color receptor cells in their eyes, which can allow them to see 100 million colors. To put that into perspective for you, a typical human only has three color receptors and can only see about one million colors.

Ask any writer or filmmaker or painter just how much of a given project truly represents what he/she envisioned it to be. You'll hear twenty percent...ten...five...few will claim more than thirty. The master of one's medium is the degree to which that percentage can be increased, the degree to which the artist's ideas survive the journey -- or, for some artists, the degree to which the inevitable detours are made useful by the artist.

The optimal lens that creates an acceptable amount of distortion is a 50mm lens. This translates into the drawing as a 60º Cone of Vision. How is this determined? Every lens has a degree of visible area assigned to it and 60º is close to what is seen through a 50mm lens.