Quotes About Vision

Then you understand the wide range of the totally new and unexpected creations they can sometimes come up with. Most people's minds travel along the same road traveled by everyone else, never straying off the route of conventional wisdom. Makers know no such boundaries. They have a rare ability to make their own roads of thought. Their minds venture through the wilderness of all that exists, combining random bits of knowledge in ways that have never been imagined before.

Standing there, chisel and mallet in hand, gazing at the statue that was his vision in stone, was a moment when Richard could savor the supreme achievement of having his creation exist exactly as he had originally conceived it. For this singular moment in time, it was complete, and it was his alone.

he had created a solution where it had never before existed, or even been imagined.

You envisioned the idea of a Confessor for the right reasons. Life is truth. Truth is Life. You wanted a way to seek truth. Such a cause, in the promotion of life, is noble.

Create a better idea of what the key should be. One that makes more sense to people, so that they believe in the diversion we create.

Keep your vision all-inclusive, never allowing it to lock on any one thing. That was the meaning of the starburst symbol: look everywhere at once, see nothing to the exclusion of all else—don't allow the enemy to direct your vision, or you will see what he wishes you to see. He will then come at you as you become bewildered, looking for his attack, and you will lose.

to think of the solution—and not the problem.

Too long we have lived looking to the past and not to the future! Too long we have chased old ghosts and been blind to new callings! Too long we have listened to those who would seek to drag us into war and ignored those who would guide us on a path to peace!

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.

People build something that works. Then circumstances change, and they have to tinker with it to make it continue to work, and they are so busy tinkering that they cannot see that a much better idea would be to build a whole new system to deal with the new circumstances. But to an outsider, the idea is obvious.

Rincewind tried shutting his eyes, but there were no eyelids to his imagination and it was staring widely

I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called The Valley Full of Clouds. Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.

only those with their feet on rock can build castles in the air.

An imagination is a terrible thing to bring along.

There was practically nothing that he wouldn't attack, including architecture.

Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human.

once you have a dream you've got somewhere closer to a reality.

Even now, if he closed his eyes, he could still see the God of Evolution beaming so happily as the cockroach stirred.

When one of us says, "Look, there's nothing out there," what we are really saying is, "I cannot see.

Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision. Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together

When one of us says, 'Look there's nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see.

organizational improvement, even turnaround, is less a matter of getting the wrong people off the bus than a matter of helping people see. It is a matter of changing mindset.

Leaders fail," Paul explains, "by coming in saying, 'Here's the vision. Now you go execute what I see.' That's just wrong in our view of the world." Continuing, he says, "Although leaders should provide a mission or context and point toward what is possible, what humble, good leaders also do is to help people see.