Quotes About Vision

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and from all that retinal painting.

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.

To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

I've always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.

I knew that when I grew up, I wanted to have a business.

My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

I'm always wanting to do the impossible.

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.

The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don't think I knew anything besides that.

I always knew I wanted to make movies since I was around eleven. I never thought of it as wanting to do straight-up comedy. Even now, I don't see things in terms of genre.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I'd argue that in the last few decades in America, when people are asked what they hope the future will look like, they still turn to 'Star Trek.' They hope we put aside our differences and come together as humanity, that we rise above war, poverty, racism, and other problems that have beset us.

The wardrobe department isn't a bunch of elves there to serve you; they're artists with vision. Honor them.