Quotes About Vision

Always nice to have an officer who can see past the end of his beard

And why do I often meet your visage here,Your eyes like agate lanterns—on and onBelow the toothpaste and the dandruff ads?And did their riding eyes right through your side,And did their eyes like unwashed platters ride?And Death, aloft—gigantically downProbing through you—toward me, O evermore!

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

Man lives by imagination.

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.

The eye has knowledge the mind cannot share

To the question, 'What is God?' and 'What is man?' the answer is that the soul, conscious of its limited existence, is 'man', and the soul reflected by the vision of the unlimited, is 'God'. In plain words man's self-consciousness is man, and man's consciousness of his highest ideal is God.

to believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.

It takes work to shift your focus from the smudges on the window to the view outside.

That is the other thing novelist do. We imagine the world we hope for and endeavor, with the greatest power we have, to bring that world into being.

An intuitive insight or concept can often turn out to be an unexpected success.

Whether you are at play in the fields of the Lord or standing next to home plate squinting at the popping pitcher, that sudden, immediate knowing can also help you envision the outcome.

I've created, directed and choreographed for Lady Gaga since the beginning, so 'Born This Way ' this was musically such an amazing evolution and such a brilliant record. So when she played it for me, it took me a while to find out the visual interpretation that I could give back to her.

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and color through all the fluctuation of things.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Having a strategy suggests an ability to look up from the short term and the trivial to view the long term and the essential, to address causes rather than symptoms, to see woods rather than trees.

Gray tenía una visión exaltada del estratega como alguien que podía ver el sistema como un todo, captando las múltiples interdependencias y los numerosos factores en juego con el fin de averiguar y señalar dónde se podría aplicar la acción del modo más provechoso.

desde el objetivo final, recorría hacia atrás con el pensamiento una compleja red de medios (y obstáculos) para lograrlo».

Friction thus caused delay and confusion. Action in war became like walking in water, and vision was regularly obscured. "All actions take place in something virtually akin to dusk, which in addition, like fog or moonlight, gives objects an exaggerated size and a grotesque view.

If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there.

The only thing they had in common was the grandeur of their vision.

Christianity would be powerless to block this trend because it exists only in the realm of the spirit—"like a vision in a pure ideal world." Islam, on the other hand, is "a complete system" with laws, social codes, economic rules, and its own method of government. Only Islam offered a formula for creating a just and godly society. Thus