Quotes About Vision

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

it makes no difference where you came from, if you know where you want to go.

If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision. It also means that you have a responsibility to lead us in new ways.

Little people with big dreams are reimagining the world.

Sin, too, is real. All we have to do is look at the news or, if our vision is good enough, look in the mirror.

It is an altar call to the world, an invitation to see a new kind of Christianity and to hear the confession of a church on its knees asking your forgiveness for the mess we have helped create. And it is an "alter" call to the church, to alter our vision from the patterns of this world and create new ways of living.

If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision.

Grace makes room for redemption. Grace offers us a vision for justice that is restorative, and dedicated to healing the wounds of injustice. But

At that moment, we decided to stop complaining about the church we saw, and we set our hearts on becoming the church we dreamed of.

Rick talked about hope as a life-sustaining force that is rooted in our relationship with the future. He wrote, "Just as our ancestors did, today we think about getting from where we are now, let's call it Point A, to where we want to be, say Point B.

Magnificent Holy Father, We rejoice over the fact that You are never ashamed to be called our God, and we sincerely hope we are never ashamed to be called the bride of Christ. Open our eyes to the vision You had in mind when You called us to be "fishers of men," and give us a heart to naturally draw others toward You. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

The smaller man said again, 'See the Buddha in everyone.' How different, I thought, that is from Brakhage, who says it is the artist's business to discover the particularity that distinguishes you from all others. Your virtue. Your vision that makes you separate from others. I remembered that he quoted Robert Duncan. 'Soul is not universal. It is a created-creative event.

In the end it is the quality and character, a leader's understanding of how to be, not how to do, that determines the performance, the results. —FRANCES HESSELBEIN

The other dreams inside a constellation

And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?

Not a realistic wish, as anyone could have told him — but I would not be the one to say so. Why limit your dreams, after all? Why not hope for the grandest and the best?

On Gandhi: Don't ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

From dreams reality is born.

I now think it takes more faith to name our need than to keep believing that something will happen and not doing anything about it. It takes faith, and great courage, to get help, to take the first painful step toward the dream that is in our hearts...I know now that you can look at bricks and cement for years, believing in the vision of a home, but until you get down on your hands and knees and start to build, it will remain a dream.

My prayers are answered. No: a glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. And there must perhaps always be just enough lack of demonstrative certainty to make free choice possible: for what could we do but accept if the faith were like the multiplication table?