Quotes About Vision

Call me idealistic, but the genesis of great companies is answering simple questions that change the world, not the desire to become rich.

Bootstrapping goes awry when entrepreneurs focus on saving pennies to the detriment of the Big Picture.

La verdad es que ser emprendedor no es un puesto de trabajo. Es la actitud mental de la gente que quiere alterar el futuro.

Nuestro viaje Este libro es para las personas que ven la vida por lo que puede ser, y no por lo que no puede ser. Ellas son las que llevan al mercado una causa –es decir, un producto, un servicio, una organización o una idea– capaz de transformar el mundo en un lugar mejor.

the first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader.

Find Soul Mates The next step is to find some soul mates to go on your adventure—think Bilbo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring. However, people love the notion of the sole innovator: Thomas Edison (lightbulb), Steve Jobs (Macintosh), Henry Ford (Model T), Anita Roddick (The Body Shop), and Richard Branson (Virgin Airlines). It's wrong.

When telescopes work, everyone is an astronomer, and the world is full of stars. When they don't, everyone whips out their microscopes, and the world is full of flaws. The reality is that you need both microscopes and telescopes to achieve success.

Do you think we need a real CEO? Answer you're looking for: "Maybe, someday. But probably not right now. What you really need right now is a great product.

He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light of a long enough perspective. This had never made him popular.

You'll See It When You Believe It!

It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated phenomena, seen and felt only by a psychologically sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience.

There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and proasic with the poison of life.

It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well—seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognisable chromaticism.

Damnation, is but a word bandied about by those whose blindness leads them to condemn all who can see

If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing.

Well, I should say that the really weird artist has a kind of vision which makes models, or summons up what amounts to actual scenes from the spectral world he lives in.

Ever new seemed this deathless city of vision, for here time has no power to tarnish or destroy.

There are twists of time and space, of vision and reality, which only a dreamer can divine; and from what I know of Carter I think he has merely found a way to traverse these mazes.

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.

The world is made from our imagination ; our eyes enliven it , as our hands give it shape.Wanting makes it thrive; meaning is what you put in , not what you extract. you can only see what you are inclined to see, and no more. We have to make the new.

Yet velvet curtains, soft cheese, compelling work and boys who can run full-tilt—it isn't enough. And if it isn't, it isn't. There's no living with that. The world is made from our imagination; our eyes enliven it, as our hands give it shape. Wanting makes it thrive; meaning is what you put in, not what you extract. You only see what you are inclined to see, and no more. We have to make the new.