Quotes About Vision

Utopias are often just premature truths.

Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted.

There is fire inside us, Emma, and as it blazes, it burns us, and the burning causes pain—but without its light, I cannot see to draw.

By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in an effort to ignore the pain in his wrists. It wasn't working. ~pg. 317~

I went down and down,' he remembered, 'until the wingtips of angels brushed my eyes.

it with the eye of an interior decorator, and there were possibilities everywhere she looked. She moved

Look into my eyes. Do you see a new morning with new beginnings?" He searched her gaze, and then, in a husky voice that reached way down inside her, he whispered, "Yes." He drew out the word until it seemed to echo and reecho in her mind.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

corneas? Why arent you off somewhere gazing

The shorter your range of vision, the fewer options and changes to trouble you.

Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.

September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator. She knew only that a red light glowed and went dark, glowed and went dark.

I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not sleep; she who swallows the storm, yet knows nothing of rain or wind. I speak for her; I am her own.

This is how you learn to see: You put together a crew. No one can see a damn thing clearly with only two eyes.

If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.

A prophetic world that can never come true.

Draw the world the way you want it. Draw it and it will be.

If one keeps one's eyes open, it is possible to see things in many different ways.

I can see clearly now, my brain is gone. Lucy

We thank the institutions that support our research and our virtual endeavors. They are listed in the acknowledgments section of this report. Without their vision and commitment to this larger project of envisioning the best modes of learning for a digital age, this research project would not exist. It is not our purpose

a few dreamers believed you could build a nation upon ideas such as liberty and equality.