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Quotes About Vision

Floaters swarmed through his eyeballs like schools of panicked fish.
~ Peter Watts
Bad eyes are only one bane of clear vision: bad assumptions can be just as blinding.
~ Peter Watts
Visual reality is the starting point, but beneath this the true intention is the poetic vision. These twin poles – the encounter with reality and the imaginative transformation of reality – are the two opposing poles around which all artistic endeavour has been concentrated for thousands of years.
~ Peter Whitfield
Vede insieme l'uno e l'altro polo, Le stelle vaghe e lor viaggio torto; E vedi, 'I veder nostro quanto e corto. (You see both poles at once, the travelling stars in their winding courses, and you see just how limited our seeing really is.)
~ Petrarch
explore the similarities and differences between your views and those of others—and pay special attention to prediction markets and other Methods of extracting wisdom from crowds. Synthesize all these different views into a single vision as acute as that of a dragonfly. Finally, express your judgment as precisely as you can, using a finely grained scale of probability.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
Yesterday is already a dream And tomorrow but a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.
~ Philip James Bailey
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
~ Philip Johnson
First build the cities, then build the states, and then hope that the nation will prosper.
~ Philip Kotler
They say eyes clear with age.
~ Philip Larkin
I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
Spirituality' is a word that, in broad terms, stands for lifestyles and practices that embody a vision of human existence and of how the human spirit is to achieve its full potential. In that sense, 'spirituality' embraces an aspirational approach, whether religious or secular, to the meaning and conduct of human life.
~ Philip Sheldrake
Tu n'étais pas comme les autres car tu regardais toujours au-delà des choses… Tu voulais toujours voir ce qui n'existait pas.
~ Philippe Claudel
Les limites existent seulement dans l'esprit de ceux qui ne savent pas rêver." (The limits exist only in the minds of those who can not dream)
~ Philippe Petit
Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.
~ Philippe Petit
Les limites existent seulement dans l'esprit de ceux qui ne savent pas rêver.
~ Philippe Petit
Reality seemed so paltry next to castles—dungeons—in the air.
~ Pico Iyer
Is it any wonder that Canada, so generous when it comes to supporting the arts, is also a world leader when it comes to creating community, fashioning a global vision and nurturing an expansive vision of humanity?
~ Pico Iyer
It's not a matter of painting life. It's a matter of giving life to painting.
~ Pierre Bonnard
Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.
~ Pierre Bonnard
Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.
~ James Rouse
Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.
~ Orison Swett Marden
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
~ Thomas Sowell
We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions.
~ William McDonough