Quotes About Vision

I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that you're trying to accomplish.

The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.

I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

We're trying to create people that are going to change the world.

It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence.

The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at that moment.

I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.

When I do a film, I try and see how in tune I am with the director.

As a race car driver, I don't think I will drive forever, because it is not so much a question of being competitive, but of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

If I could bring 'The Tunnel' to life, I'd like to do it like that.

The great ones have the ability to focus and tune everything else out and see more than the others. Average quarterbacks have tunnel vision. They see what's in front of them. The better you get, the more that tunnel expands, and the more guys on the field you see.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

I liked to watch the expression in the fighter's face change when you connected with him. You know when you connect in the right spot. It's like a tunnel vision.

We owe it to consumers to treat their dollars with respect and to double- and triple-check our assumptions about complex marketplaces rather than getting locked into a regulatory tunnel vision that will ultimately leave consumers with fewer, more expensive choices.

When you're a manager you always have tunnel vision at certain times.

People talk of the power and capabilities of Sharad Pawar. But except for his home turf Baramati, he has done very little for the development of the state. His vision is limited to Baramati.

Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in sweeping away traditions accumulated over centuries, today's Turkey would not exist, and the world would be much poorer.

Turkey wants to see Bashar al-Assad go and wants to kind of expand its sphere of influence into Turkey so its Ottoman glory or Ottoman past are once again project into the Syrian provinces. That's kind of what Turkey's vision is.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

I will take the lead in turning risks into opportunities.

Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that.