Quotes About Vision

Both past and future were disappearing from them, the past because nobody would remember it, the future because nobody could imagine it.

I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.

In reality, of course, when it comes to choosing a spouse the vast majority of people have been always content to accept flawed reality over mythical perfection. But not Thomas Day. Nobody—before or since—has tried quite so literally or so systematically to create for themselves their vision of a perfect mate

Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she only knew once she peered through the viewfinder, as if the photograph had finally found her.

If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business asking anyone for anything, let alone their time and interest. Don't show the world, he said, invent the world.

Walt had done something new, something big, just as he always hoped he would. And it was just the beginning.

More than weapons, we need a leader.

Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself. Neither revealed by a vision, nor announced by a voice, it reached mortal knowledge through the sense which is least easily self-deceived: the sense that feels.

When a man is interested in the past he writes history; when he is interested in the future he makes it.

The truest vision ever had of God came, perhaps, here.

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

I will not reason and compare my business is to create.

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

Than you'll see the world as it is : infinte.

The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.

Vision is the end of religion.

I know that this world is a world of Imagination and Vision.

Fear & Hope are — Vision

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination, the Divine Vision.