Quotes About Vision

Tous prétendent vrai leur vision de vie mais toute vision peut s'avérer n'être qu'une illusion

the peculiar ability to see triangles and hexagons where others see only a party.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

The Great Man theory lives on as strongly as ever in one field of human endeavour: big business.

Let your life be guided by greatness

What's the use of having eyes if we can't see the world we pass through?

and since the beginning of human history the soldier and the poet had shared great (or terrible) imaginations that remade their surroundings.

What gifts they all are if our hearts are inclined in the right way and our vision to the right angle - seeing animals as they are apart from our designs upon them, as fellow creatures on their own terms, some glorious and mighty like the elephant, some fearful and lethal like the tiger, some joyful and gentle like the dolphin, some lowly and unprepossessing like the pig, but not a one of them, however removed from our exalted world, hidden from its Maker's sight.

It held an eye to the future and a tongue to the past.

Hokusai managed to integrate this into a Japanese vision of landscapes and nature prints which strike the Western viewer as utterly Japanese, and the Japanese as totally Western, even today.

I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. If anyone was ever going to be killed by an Elf Hotel, it would be my parents.

Jim, I studied engineering in college. When I see things, I see them.

This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the circumstances you might encounter. An exalted view of self-esteem is a man's most admirable quality.

I want to see, real, living, and in the hours of my own days, that glory I create as an illusion! I want it real! I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too! Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

I and they, my chosen friends, my fellow-builders, shall write the firsts chapter in the new history of man

It [Romanticism] is concerned—in the words of Aristotle—not with things as they are, but with things as they might be and ought to be.

Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men! -Equality 7-2521

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach, at the end, the vision with which one started.

An architect requires a great many men to erect his building. But he does not ask them to vote on his design.

The novelist must discover the potential, the gold mine, of man's soul, must extract the gold and then fashion as magnificent a crown as his ability and vision permit.

The great creators—the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors—stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.