Quotes About Vision

Satan can move in the supernatural realm, too, because he is a spirit being, as is God. You've got to be able to know whether a vision, dream, impression, or suggestion is from God or Satan. Those suggestions that do not line up with the Word are of the devil.

A reactionary is someone with a clear and comprehensive vision of an ideal world we have lost.

Someone asked Rodin how he could sculpt an elephant out of marble. It's easy, he responded, "You just chip away everything that isn't an elephant." Chip away everything that isn't your point.

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.

Anticipation forward points the view.

Imagination it is which builds bridges, and cities, and empires. The beasts know it not ... while to one in a hundred thousand of earth's dominant race it is given as a gift from heaven that man may not perish from the earth.

For the first time since World War II the international community is united. The leadership of the United Nations, once only a hoped-for ideal, is now confirming its founders' vision.... The world can therefore seize this opportunity to fulfill the long-held promise of a new world order.

My God, we ate, slept and dreamed our pictures.

America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.

When you're part of the pioneering effort, there's a focusing of an individual's concentration and level of attention that is at the exclusion of a lot of other things. It's kind of gun-barrel vision.

The future is not what we make but what we see

We need leadership, and we need it now.

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

It is more than just maintaining or even growing a church, but believing your church can reach an entire city or a region; believing they can make a difference.

shift the global field of entrepreneurship

By listening with active openness, they help other people to articulate their own values more clearly and so to bring a richer vision of value into the relationship. "Under the relational conception of power, what is truly for the good of anyone or all of the relational partners is not a preconceived good. The true good is not a function of controlling or dominating influence. The true good is an emergent from deeply mutual relationships."6

In process theology, God is constantly, in every moment and in every place, doing everything within God's power to bring about the good. Divine power, however, is persuasive rather than coercive. God cannot (really cannot) force people or the world to obey God's will. Instead, God works by sharing with us a vision of the better way, of the good and the beautiful. God's power lies in patience and love, not in force.

We must make mistakes. We must live out our own vision of life. . .If you avoid error you do not live; in a sense even it may be said that every life is a mistake, for no one has found the truth.

Wisdom dwells in the depths, the wisdom of the mother; being one with her means being granted a vision of deeper things, of the primordial images and primitive forces which underlie all life and are its nourishing, sustaining, creative matrix. Hölderlin, in his pathological ecstasy, senses the grandeur of the things seen, but unlike Faust he does not care to bring into the light of day all that he has found in the depths:

Not the artist alone, but every creative individual whatsoever owes all that is greatest in his life to fantasy.

What we are to our inward vision, and what man appears to be sub specie aeternitatis, can only be expressed by way of myth.

The best camera is already always with you, because the best, sensor is your brain and the best lens is your eyes.

The world is only as small as we see it, my lady. Imagination knows no limits.

Do What Steve Jobs Did, Not What He Said