Quotes About Vision

Keine Kompromisse. Keine Zeitverschwendung. Manchmal musst du in deinem Leben den klaren Entschluss treffen, dich voll als Mensch verwirklichen zu wollen, egal was es kostet. Normalerweise bringt uns eine größere Krise an diesen Punkt. Schmerz ist oft das, was uns wirklich motiviert, eine Vision für ein vollkommen neues Leben ins Auge zu fassen. Langeweile und die Gewohnheit, "auf Nummer sicher zu gehen", halten diese visionäre Kraft in uns unter Verschluss.

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

Each administration that he'd served had started out with its own unique style, its own vision, energy, optimism, and idealism. But within a year, the entrenched bureaucracy reexerted its suffocating influence, and about a year after that, the new administration began getting pessimistic, isolated, and divided with internal conflicts and squabbles.

Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation.

The statesman is therefore like one of the heroes in classical drama who has had a vision of the future but who cannot transmit it directly to his fellow-men and who cannot validate its truth. Nations learn only by experience; they 'know' only when it is too late to act. But statesmen must act as if their intuition were already experience, as if their aspiration were truth.

For some readers, I dare say, the word 'institution' still conjures up a Victorian vision of lunatic asylums: poor old Niall, he's in an institution now. That is not the kind of institution I mean. I am talking about, for example, political institutions, like the British Parliament or the American Congress. When we talk about

why, when its causes today seem so numerous and so obvious, were contemporaries so oblivious of Armageddon until just days before its advent? One possible answer is that their vision was blurred by a mixture of abundant liquidity and the passage of time.

unintelligible because the print was so small.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

There is nothing more to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its Success, than to take the lead in introduction of a new order of things.

Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret I don't see

Observation precedes vision.

For Josef, the goal of art was to reveal new ways of seeing, "to open eyes.

Once we have learned how to see the world, we have taken only one of the required steps. The point is to change it.

I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.

A girl needs to be able to dream, you know ?

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you've got to think about the legs of your collection - essentially, how the line is going to move forward.

We don't want to get distracted by looking back; we need to move forward.

You have to believe that things can be bigger than what you see in front of you in order to move forward.