Quotes About Vision

I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.

I've always had a soft spot for dreamers – not those who waste their time thinking 'what if' but the ones who look to the sky and say 'why can't I shoot for the moon?'

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

We must look a long time before we can see

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.

I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

I think we're a long ways from really putting colonies of people out there who would live their whole lives out there in space. I don't see that happening for quite some time.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.