Quotes About Vision

Asking "what if" and answering that question is the bedrock of what the novel can achieve. The story becomes something more than one person's perspective—it reaches as far as the novelist can imagine.

I once heard a man speak, who had understanding, and the promise of vision. He was called the Master of Culter.

Now she was wiser. In this brief and dizzying apprenticeship, she had started to realize that, whatever his occupation, Lymond's life was lived on this level: the level on which the future of whole communities could be steered or reshaped, improved or jeopardized by a handful of people.

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.

If thine eye be single, the whole body is full of light

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I shall sit alone in a darkened room, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything but a little grey old head, and in that little grey old head a peculiar vision of hideous blue and gold dangling things flashing in the light, and the smell of sweat, cat food and death.

because it's not enough to have a dream—you need financing.

Information is like electricity; it powers the light that allows us to see our way forward.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I've got a plan. But I've got an idea. It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea. - Superintendent Battle

She couldn't let the past go and she could never see the future as it really was, only as she imagined it to be.

But, mind you, very few people would understand that point of view. Most people, you see, haven't got any imagination

He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an observant person) nor the inner vision--concentration, the focusing of the mind on one object. He has a purposefully limited vision. He sees only what blends and harmonises with the bent of his mind.

One man in a thousand can see the moons of Jupiter. Because the other nine hundred and ninety-nine can't see them there's no reason to doubt that the moons of Jupiter exist, and certainly no reason for calling the thousandth man a lunatic.

O que importa para você é o ensino e o lado ético. Sua visão está certa. Mas, se quiser fazer sucesso com qualquer coisa, sabe, terá que ser boa empresária também. Ideias são como qualquer outra coisa: precisam ser vendidas.

It is to show you that it is the eyes of the mind with which one really sees….

It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea.

Todos nos vemos en el espejo de distintos ángulos, pero estamos todos ante él, y por lo tanto vemos también lo mismo.

It is not the past that matters,but the future

breakthroughs occur only when one is able to view things in a completely different, new way.

And some look through a broken spyglass onto the horizon in search for gold

Unless you become a big picture thinker, you will always stay where you are.