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Quotes About Vision

good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.
~ Michael Lewis
The power of an imagination can arise from what it refuses to foresee.
~ Michael Lewis
When asked the key to his success, he said, "In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
~ Michael Lewis
It's what you fail to imagine that kills you.
~ Michael Lewis
I share your feeling that such behavior is, in some sense, unwise or erroneous, but this does not mean that it does not occur,' Amos wrote to an American economist who complained about the description of human nature implied by 'Value Theory.' 'A theory of vision cannot be faulted for predicting optical illusions. Similarly, a descriptive theory of choice cannot be rejected on the grounds that it predicts 'irrational behavior' if the behavior in question is in fact observed.
~ Michael Lewis
No doubt the Home of the Future was only one of several possible uses Clark would find for their work. That was Clark's job—to imagine a future for their software.
~ Michael Lewis
The triple of Jeremy Brown's imagination, in reality, is a home run.
~ Michael Lewis
The most appealing companies became those in a state of pure possibility.
~ Michael Lewis
Once he had identified the new new thing, all he needed was some really smart, passionate engineers to chase after it and make it happen.
~ Michael Lewis
Kittu was fascinated that such a technically minded person could be so happy groping blindly toward big piles of money. "Jim Clark has a clarity of vision that is prompted by the purest form of greed," says Kittu.
~ Michael Lewis
A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.
~ Michael Lewis
He attracted followers as a magnet attracts filings. In other words, he was exactly the right man to take an inherently implausible idea and lead others to believe in it.
~ Michael Lewis
Long rose and explained how he intended to restore the company to the heart of the Magic Diamond.
~ Michael Lewis
It was clear what had happened," he later said. "This company started out with great ambitions, and then the ambition got smaller and smaller. I just took it back to Jim's original vision.
~ Michael Lewis
Yet the place was strangely old-fashioned. The strongest feeling I got from New York at first was nostalgia. A 1930s vision of the future.
~ Michael Moorcock
Image the whole, then execute the parts— Fancy the fabric Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz Ere mortar dab brick!
~ Michael Oakeshott
Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Give me a map and I'll build you a city.
~ Michael Ondaatje
A minimál látótér gyönyör?sége
~ Michael Ondaatje
binocular depth inversion illusion.
~ Michael Pollan
I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.
~ Michael J. Fox
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
~ Pablo Picasso
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
~ Brian Eno
Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy shared more than just being leaders during critical times and the misfortune of lives cut short. They shared a power of will to drive the nation, sometimes single-handedly, toward a destination that few but they realized was attainable.
~ Seth Moulton