Quotes About Vision

Not all dreamers achieve, but all achievers are dreamers.

your mind was given to you to use to create the person you want to be.

Motivation requires a calm, centered leader who is focused on one thing, and only one thing.

create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

Think up some stories about who you would like to be. Soon you will begin to create the necessary blueprint for stretching your accomplishments. Without a picture of your highest self, you can't live into that self. Fake it 'till you make it. The lie will become the truth.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. —Peter Drucker

What you do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

Objects in the mirror of the future appear larger than they really are.

A dream's only a memory of the future, right?

As long as you can tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one, generating a boatload of ideas, even outlandish ones, can only be a good thing.

A few lines of reasoning can change the way we see the world.

Storytellers need their stories to resonate with their listeners. So when you envision a goal and describe the action needed to reach that goal, you transform your vision into a portrayal that depicts what's truly possible to move people to action. While you need enough material (data and reasoned analysis) to flesh out the tale, you don't want to bombard people with charts and tables.

We conventionally associate dream inspiration with the creative arts, but the canon of scientific breakthroughs contains many revolutionary ideas that originated in dreams.

They were not hacks, working surreptitiously for Victorian special-interest groups. They were not blinded by politics or personal ambition. They were blinded, instead, by an idea.

CONCAVE LENS (1451)

If you looked at the map of idea formation that Dunbar created, the ground zero of innovation was not the microscope. It was the conference table.

After three decades of research, Zimbardo found that the healthiest, happiest, highest performers blend the best of both worlds. The optimal time perspective combines the energy, joy, and openness of Presents, with the strength, fortitude, and long-term vision of the Futures.

Imagination," says futurist and philosopher Jason Silva, "allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

The quality most desirable in a CEO? According to a global survey conducted by IBM of 1,500 top executives in sixty countries: creativity.

Our visual systems can play tricks on us, and that is enough to prove they are gadgets, not pipelines to the truth.

We are primates, with a third of our brains dedicated to vision, and large swaths devoted to touch, hearing, motion, and space. For us to go from "I think I understand" to "I understand," we need to see the sights and feel the motions.

While a vision of world peace may have given John and Yoko some good songs, it is hopelessly naïve in the real world.

Even the humdrum rationality of seeing rather than hallucinating is in the service of the ever-present goal built into our visual systems of knowing our surroundings.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.