Quotes About Vision

Goals must be high enough to excite you, yet not so high that you cannot vividly imagine them. Goals must be attainable, but just out of reach for now.

With great athletes, their eyes aren't searchlights. They aren't even spotlights. They are laser beams.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

If you write well and honestly, with character rising from background and action springing from character, and if you remain true to your vision of life, then theme will emerge in the reading process. And if you write what you believe, and only what you believe, the theme will inevitably be consistent.

This is what we call political fundamentalism: a vision of the political world in which all goodness and truth lie on one side.

the whole trouble with [Julian] Hawthorne is his -conventional- mind. He cannot understand things that are not, but which might be, or ought to be. [Jack London, in a letter from 1905]

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

If this is so, then the distinction between scientists, poets, painters, and writers is not clear. In fact, it is possible that scientists, poets, painters, and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call commonplace and to re-present them to us in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded. Those people in whom this gift is especially pronounced, we call geniuses.

When the image is new, the world is new.

Just as some things must be seen to be believed, some must be believed to be seen.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

as he read through the Levitical laws, he received a vision of Yahweh's holiness so pure and intense, it was like a blinding light that pierced his soul. Israel was a royal priesthood of Yahweh's perfection. And he understood again that Yahweh's laws were not restrictive, but freeing. They were the boundaries for experiencing the best that the creator offered to humanity.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

Lucas wasn't paying for a movie; he was buying his own creative freedom.

Great creations use something we understand to give us something we've never experienced.

I am arguing that the best way to love and lead our people is not to call them to our vision, but to call them to the values of the kingdom and release them to see a vision for how that looks in their own life.

That night, cold and alone, Joseph had thought he'd found a portal into the past. But he'd been wrong. It was a vision of the future.

You either see it or you don't.

Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.

Enemies Judged, the Redeemed Return — 34:1–35:10 The Vision concerning Hezekiah — 36:1–39:8 The Vision concerning God's Promises — 40:1–48:22 The Vision concerning Redemption and Restoration — 49:1–55:13 Yahweh, Our Judge and Redeemer — 56:1–66:24

The Rest Of Your Life At A Glance", which he thought