Quotes About Vision

The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our tendencies to engage in particular control dramas, even how we might work through these dramas with these parents and go on to be prepared for what we want to accomplish.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

Don't sleep through your dreams.

There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

What is the difference between power, title, and leadership? Is leadership possible without a purpose larger than personal ambition?

At the airfield, the photographers begged for a shot. "You simply cannot do this to me," he laughingly remarked, and they obliged, lowering their cameras. As the president's plane took off, Churchill put his hand on American Vice-Consul Kenneth Pendar's arm. "If anything happened to that man," he said, "I couldn't stand it. He is the truest friend; he has the farthest vision; he is the greatest man I have ever known.

If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it.

power without purpose and without vision was not the same thing as leadership.

For nearly two years, under Lyndon Johnson's domestic leadership, Republicans and Democrats had toiled together to engineer the greatest advances in civil rights since the Civil War and to launch a comprehensive, progressive vision of American society that would leave a permanent imprint on the national landscape.

we should look beyond our noses;

Do leaders shape the times or do the times summon their leaders?

Regardless of one's impressive title, power without purpose and without vision was not the same thing as leadership.

The world was far more complicated and nuanced than his categorical moral vision had led him to believe. The ability to learn from the excesses of his egocentric behavior, to alter course, to profit from error, was essential to his growth.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.

Half of what we do, or try to be, amounts to blueprints for the future that we try to imagine.

Sitting there I had a vision of the world with nations, systems, economic blocks, hardening and consolidating; a world where it would become increasingly ludicrous even to talk about freedom, or the individual conscience.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.