Quotes About Vision

I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.

I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish that I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!" —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

Any human eye, goggled by a car's windshield, can graft such fantasies onto the great Mojave.

Hold the Vision, Trust the Process and Don't worry about the outcome.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.

Don't think of the realities, Ceecee. Think of possibilities and dreams. Of things you can't even imagine yet. And write those down.

This author has nothing but imagination…there are people who claim that imagination has clearer and keener eyes than a wise, old mind." Translated from: Und Friede auf Erden, (1904) (And Peace on Earth)

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

Any time a magnet wiggles, no matter how small it is, or how fast or slow it wiggles, it makes some kind of light. Most light is made by little magnets called molecules, and our eyes are tuned to a very narrow range of it.

The possibility of shaking off old mental models is enticing, but the quest for new ones comes with caveats. First, always remember that 'the map is not the territory', as the philosopher Alfred Korzybski put it: every model can only ever be a model, a necessary simplification of the world, and one that should never be mistaken for the real thing. Second, there is no correct pre-analytic vision, true paradigm or perfect frame out there to be discovered.

Pre-analytic vision. Worldview. Paradigm. Frame. These are cousin concepts. What matters more than the one you choose to use is to realise that you have one in the first place, because then you have the power to question and change it.

You'll see the "going big" theme running through everything I talk about in this section, as well as the rest of the book. You may be just

I've loved learning about the position," I said. "It sounds incredibly exciting, and I know I could take the magazine exactly where you want to go.

Here's a thought. What if we were to . 

They were happy because they didn't have enough imagination to look ahead, he thought, and anyone who tried to tell them there were dangers was by definition an enemy of the community.

The place you are going towards doesn't exist yet, you must build it when you come to the right spot.

When I looked at life through the camera, I felt like I could finally see it.

The Mouser sighed. The moment had come, he knew, as it always did, when outward circumstances and inner urges commanded an act, when curiosity and fascination tipped the scale of caution, when the lure of a vision and an adventure became so great and deep-hooking that he must respond to it or have his inmost self-respect eaten away.

Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Gather up these four results. Christians are not orphans, and therefore not desolate. Peace is theirs—peace which Christ gives, as the world cannot give, through the ministry of a Person ever present. In the strength of that peace they become His witnesses, because they have a perpetual vision of the Lord.

We stand, as did the men of old, in the valley, and ask the same question as they: "Watchman, what of the night?" Men of God upon the heights of vision, seers of the present day, looking out upon the great horizon, send back to us the old answer, "The morning cometh; the night also." The signs of the times are such as reveal the power of spirituality, side by side with the development of evil; but, thank God, beyond the night that comes is the larger day and gladder age for man.

It is not enough to know what we are against. We must also know what we are for.