Quotes About Vision

I started making plans, thinking we would get that far

You know I want to be a directos, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head.

Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.

I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to feel scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them.

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.

Is it so easy to change a cultural vision? Ease and difficulty are not the relevant measures. Here are the relevant measures: Readiness and unreadiness. If people aren't ready for it, then no power on earth can make a new idea catch on. But if people are ready for it (and I think they are), then a new idea will sweep the world like wildfire.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to be scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them.

Human thought is thought that opens up into the future, and the future is inescapably the domain of the gods.

Every year, without fail, we outlaw more things, catch more people doing them, and put more of them in jail. The outlawed behavior never goes away, because, directly or indirectly, it's supported by the strong, invisible, unrelenting force called vision. This explains why police officers are much more likely to take up crime than criminals are to take up law enforcement. It's called 'going with the flow.

I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to be scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them.

Mary Barra of GM said. "But they're going to have multiple ways that they can do that." Her ultimate goal, she said, is "a world with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion.

Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 was not the first such vision in the neighborhood. It had been preceded a decade earlier by another Vision 2030, this by its neighbor Abu Dhabi, which has been a pacesetter in diversifying.

Vision 2030 itself, launched in 2007, which laid out the overall strategy. The message was that the country needed to diversify its revenue base, upgrade skills, create jobs, and increase the participation of women in the economy. The results have come faster than might have been expected. Two decades ago, almost all of GDP was oil-based. Today, about 60 percent of GDP is non-oil-related. Non-oil exports have risen from just 13 percent of total exports in 2010 to 57 percent in 2018.

I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes – and that is why I am in a hurry.

Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.

To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership is even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.