Quotes About Vision

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.

More often than not, CEOs are conflict-avoidant because their role is to define vision and strategy than it is to get into confrontations with negative and toxic people which they can't stand.

I want to figure out how we put California and America back on track - how we bridge this partisan divide that is so polarizing.

I think America is on the right track.

I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.

When I work with artists, I give them a general guideline of what my vision is. Then they're going to speak their minds on how they view it, too. The song that defines 'Neon Future' the best is the title track. I wrote that with Luke Steele of Empire of the Sun. It's through his words. We had an amazing songwriting session together, connecting.

People who know my track record know when I've got a vision in mind, I'll see it through. But sometimes it's hard to convey what you're trying to achieve.

I have some tracks and songs written for future collaboration, and I'm happy to work with artists who have the right voice and taste.

By high school, I had traded my oversized, thick glasses for contact lenses, but my eyesight was getting worse every year, smothering my childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut or, at least, a pilot.

Directing is like putting together a collage.

The thing that binds us together is the commonality of our dreams, not our skin tone.

Talk to people about what our real choices are... Our way works better... Stick with us, keep talking and think how much better it will be if we keep going forward together.

It's a purpose that brings us all together, working for something larger than ourselves.

So awareness and enjoying this life can grow together simultaneously. And this is my vision of the whole man.

My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.