Quotes About Vision

Even as bad as it often gets, we are further along than Dogen could probably have envisioned in his day. I don't know how long it will take to finally get there, but, like Dogen, I believe it is possible.

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

Dream Big. Or Go Back To Sleep and Try Again.

Solutions come from focusing on where you want to be, not whats right in front of you.

Perspective prys her once-weighty eyes and it gives you wings.

You act as if there's blinders on your eyes!

brighter shades of blue and red than he had ever seen. The

Your hallucination... Yes? Your hallucination has hallucinations. Yes.

Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.

Some people assume that authors write books because we have vivid imaginations and want to share our vision. Other people assume that authors write because we are bursting with stories, and therefore must scribble those stories down in moments of creative propondidty. Both groups of people are completely wrong. Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal was a fantasy. Things change because we imagine a different world, a world that is not. And I think that imagination is one of the most important and defining aspects of human existence: our ability to imagine a world that is not.

Don't dream the small dreams of other men.

we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes out perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can.

You remember, you once told me somethin' that made me see the world in an entirely new way." "And that was?" Tress asked. "Here, try on these spectacles.

The past is irrelevant. I only look forward." Dalinar was not certain he agreed with either statement.

My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.

There are two gifts which every man of images needs to be a true creator: a certain sensitivity to life, to living things, and at the same time, the art which will enable him to capture that life in a certain specific way. I'm not talking about a pure aesthetics...

Painting done" means fully walking through my expectations of what the completed task will look like, including when it will be done, what I'll do with the information, how it will be used, the context, the consequences of not doing it, the costs—everything we can think of to paint a shared picture of the expectations.

Carl Jung wrote, "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Painting done" means fully walking through my expectations of what the completed task will look like, including when it will be done, what I'll do with the information, how it will be used, the context, the consequences of not doing it, the costs—everything we can think of to paint a shared picture of the expectations. It's one of the most powerful tools we have.

By definition, entrepreneurship is vulnerable. It's all about the ability to handle and manage uncertainty. People are constantly changing, budgets change, boards change, and competition means you have to stay nimble and innovative. You have to create a vision and live up to that vision. There is no vision without vulnerability.

Don't lose sight of the goal

For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, "The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat!

Every change in the quality of a person's life must grow out of a change in his or her vision of reality.