Quotes About Vision

A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone.

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.

I think nowadays it's important to have the support of a group of people who are ready to invest time and effort in your music and vision.

In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea.

We're going to become the number one security company.

Be there because Barack Obama and Joe Biden will deliver America the change we so desperately need.

President Barack Obama is a doer. And we in America will do big things with him.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

When I turned 40, I noticed I couldn't read the label on the back of a jar of food - it turned to be the result of presbyopia where the lens of the eye loses its ability to focus on near objects due to age. So now I wear multifocal contact lenses - and they've been a real blessing.

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.

I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

I have a bit of an obsession with eyes and always want to use them.

It's one of my obsessions to come up with ways to reimagine establishing shots in new, non-boring ways. Shots that have energy and excitement.

If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.

Most innovative things are not obvious to other people at the time. You have to believe in yourself. If you've got a good idea, follow it even though others tell you it's not.

The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

From the moment those images of Buzz and Neil arrived on the world's television sets, our human space program has been lost - for a blatantly simple and obvious reason - after the first giant leap to take that first small step, there was no plan for the next one, because there was no second question to be answered.

I obviously work really hard. But I also have the capacity to dream really big and have the discipline to materialize those dreams.