Quotes About Vision

Mao has never accepted the failure of the "Great Leap". As one of the texts reproduced below demonstrates, he would have preferred to see China perish from famine rather than readjust his own vision or recognize his mistakes.

THEY FOUND THE fire exit without turning on any lights. Despite the white flashes in front of their eyes they could see the soft glow from the electric signs.

Make no little plans," he urged. "They have no magic to stir men's blood.

sometimes dreams are all that can keep you going. Give them up, and you're dead.

Future is like an asshole. Everybody has one.---John Taylor (Nightside Series)

I'll say this for the man: He never had any problems thinking big. Thinking rationally and responsibly, yes, major problems there . . .

The Jerusalem I was raised to love was the terrestrial gateway to the divine world where Jewish, Christian and Muslim prophets, men of vision and a sense of humanity, met—if only in the imagination. —SARI NUSSEIBEH, Once Upon a Country

Herzl concluded that Jews could never be safe without their own homeland. At first, this half-pragmatist, half-utopian dreamed of a Germanic aristocratic republic, a Jewish Venice ruled by a senate with a Rothschild as princely doge and himself as chancellor. His vision was secular: the high priests "will wear impressive robes"; the Herzl army would boast cuirassiers with silver breastplates; his modern Jewish citizens would play cricket and tennis in a modern Jerusalem.

[Martin Luther King, Jr.] gave the 'I have a dream' speech, not the 'I have a plan' speech.

People don't buy what you do; people buy why you do it.

Dreamers conquered the world long ago.

"Planning is thinking about tomorrow,today." -sm-

Before we ask God for blessings, let us first ask him for vision.

Don't look back, opportunities never come from behind.

First draw a map of where you wanna take your business to, then you'll never go wrong.

Once your eyes glitter by the light, don't dare being in the dark.

Our dreams can reach the sky if we won't drop them.

Position yourself right, opportunities will come before you can imagine.

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

There is no limit to what you want to become, even if its everyone's dream

You have to make the rules, not follow them

Those, no doubt, are in some way fortunate who have brought themselves, or have been brought by others, to obey some ultimate principle before the bar of which all problems can be brought. Single-minded monists, ruthless fanatics, men possessed by an all-embracing coherent vision do not know the doubts and agonies of those who cannot wholly blind themselves to reality.

There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision ... and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory ... The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes.

This book endeavors to clear away the mists which prevent so many from seeing the road.