Quotes About Vision

Will laughed. 'You're quite a dreamer, Abbie-girl.' Abbie did not laugh. She was suddenly very sober. 'You have to, Will.' She said it a little vehemently. 'You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of ideal before you.

You can't see the whole sky from one window.

By thinking hard about how this artist sees, I learn more about my own seeing.

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

I have always been a business person.

By closing one eye, you removed binocular vision, the slight variance in images, called "binocular disparity," that occurs when we view an object with both eyes open. Binocular vision—sometimes called "depth perception"—allows us to see the world as three-dimensional. When you close one eye, the single image is two-dimensional—that is, it is flat, like a photograph, and therefore can be "copied" onto flat paper.

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

The secret is we're on, like, our seventh generation of fulfillment centers. And we have gotten better every time. When I was driving the packages myself, one of my visualizations of success is that we might one day be big enough that we could afford a forklift.

The long term approach is rare enough that it means you're not competing against very many companies. 'Cause most companies wanna see a return on investment in, you know, one, two, three years.

You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

Watch me re-position the stars.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.

Barack Obama has a vision of American greatness based not just on our unmatched military might, but on our economic, intellectual, and moral strengths. They were once the envy of the world. They can be again

We can and we must build a more perfect union. Because the American people have seen the alternative.

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true: Dream, Believe, Dare, Do.

That's the permanent mission our Founding Fathers left us—moving toward the "more perfect union.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.