Quotes About Vision

vision without systems thinking ends up painting lovely pictures of the future with no deep understanding of the forces that must be mastered to move from here to there.

vision is an idle dream at best and a cynical delusion at worst - but not an achievable end

The practice of shared vision involves the skills of unearthing shared "pictures of the future" that foster genuine commitment and enrollment rather than compliance. In mastering this discipline, leaders learn the counterproductiveness of trying to dictate a vision, no matter how heartfelt.

I thought I knew what love was….I had this vision of it. Flowers and walks holding hands, and making love, and smiling, and being happy. But now I know what it really is. Love is a poison—and the only antidote is him. Without him I will die.

The leader's success in this skill is not just in the development of a vision — the corporate world is littered with concept videos, detailed mockups, and other scenarios of possible futures. Their success is instead shown in how the vision catalyzes action, inspiring the people within a company to charge forward because they want to live in a world where that vision is made a reality.

she's teaching me to see to be blind sighted.

Between perfect vision and total blindness lies all the truth we know.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Rather than medical killing being subsumed to war, the war itself was subsumed to the vast biomedical vision of which "euthanasia" was a part.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

No effete dauber M.

There is in fact coming and going, bending and breaking. One single bolt or screw holds the blades of a scissors together, into one tool that can cut paper or leather or steel or meat. If you take that screw or break that bolt, the scissors become two things. Two knives. Eyes can cut, too, back and forth. Eyes can turn outward or inward.

scenario creation is a function of good imagination.

if you wanted to see the future you could not go to conventional sources of information.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it." After all, life is a creative process.

Beautiful landscapes are no use for good paintings.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

If you fail to plan you are planning to fail.

Start with the stuff (as most people are inclined to do when they try to conquer their clutter) and you are pretty much guaranteed failure. Start with the vision you have for the life you want and you have taken the first real step to long-term and remarkable change. The

If you can see it, chances are it doesn't exist.

Bad eyes are only one bane of clear vision: bad assumptions