Quotes About Vision

Sheesh…we speak badly about those who have only imagination and can't do anything. But once you see somebody who can do anything with just their imagination…it shows you how much easier it is not to have that power.

We're never too old for dreams.

Self-control is tightly linked with imagining the future. If you can't imagine the future, there's no reason to exhibit any discipline or self-control.

thing, most deadly of all to those who hold it in their earthly hands. For yourself, you must decide. What sort of leader do you wish to be, and with what other leaders

You know, we're a victim of our own success," the former senator said quietly. "We've managed to handle every nation-state that ever crossed us, but these invisible bastards who work for their vision of God are harder to identify and track.

First we must accomplish the task at hand. An officer who looks too far ahead stumbles over his own boots.

no one rose to exceptional greatness exclusively by being "a good soldier.

Real dreams are about seeing what others miss. If you have your head in the clouds, you can see the world more clearly. Maybe this is why so many poets and visionaries die young or drink heavily—it is painful when you can see the truth up close. It can be unbearable.

Great groups believe they are on a mission from God. Beyond mere financial success, they genuinely believe they will make the world a better place.

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Linus Pauling famously said, "If you want a good idea, start with a lot of ideas.

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I've learned that it isn't necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It's a game, right? It's like being paid for dreaming.

If there's a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn't exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn't have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that's it. That's all an artist does.

Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego. It is complicated by exposure to politics.

Those people who recognize that imagination is reality's master, we call "sages," and those who act upon it, we call "artists.

That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us.

Personally, I've found maturity an overrated quality except in wine, for both creative artists and lively people in general have much to gain from facing the world with the unsullied vision, flexible responses, and playful sensibilities of a child.

Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego.

to behave as if the thermostats on their imaginations were set permanently on high.

You can hook a rainbow to a goofy vision -Jellybean is doing that- but you can't hook a rainbow to a lie

That's the value of artists, isn't it? Even when they aren't aware of it, they're dreaming our dreams for us.