Quotes About Vision

Iti spun un lucru. Ce este mai apropiat decat fratele de frate, mama de copil?Ce este mai apropiat decat mana de gura, gandul de minte? E viziunea, Roger. Nu ma astept ca tu sa intelegi asta... -Dar pricep,mai incape vorba! Jocelin isi inalta chipul si deodata zambi: -Chiar intelegi? -Dar vine clipa in care viziunea nu mai e decat jocul copilului de-a-sa-zicem. -Aha! Clatina din cap, incet, atent; si luminile plutira. -Atunci nu intelegi deloc. Deloc.

When I left you, he whispered, you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on your perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me.

I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Says Saint Teresa:— Like imperfect sleep which, instead of giving more strength to the head, doth but leave it the more exhausted, the result of mere operations of the imagination is but to weaken the soul. Instead of nourishment and energy she reaps only lassitude and disgust: whereas a genuine heavenly vision yields to her a harvest of ineffable spiritual riches, and an admirable renewal of bodily strength.

Open yourself to every possibility, for there is nothing your heart can imagine that is not so.

That philosophy, however demented, had roots, as we have seen, deep in German life. The blueprint may have seemed preposterous to most twentieth-century minds, even in Germany. But it too possessed a certain logic. It held forth a vision. It offered, though few saw this at the time, a continuation of German history. It pointed the way toward a glorious German destiny.

The revolutionaries want a new country in a new world, one they cannot see but believe they can build. And they believe that in so doing, the builders will also build themselves anew.

I closed my eyes then but it was too dark to clearly see that vision that my body would conjure out of blood and the inside of skin when light hit it, but I'd seen it so often, examined it so carefully, that it wasn't hard for me to call to mind.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Logic takes you from A to B, but imagination takes you everywhere.

The eye is not harmed by sleep.

marry your long-term goal with short-term critical moves.

We want what we might call a destination postcard—a vivid picture from the near-term future that shows what could be possible. That

When a CEO discusses "unlocking shareholder value," there is a tune playing in her head that the employees can't hear.

to marry your long-term goal with short-term critical moves.

Effective visions expressed values that allow employees to identify with the organization…. One manager at a glass company suggested, 'it's hard to get excited about 15% return on equity.

If you are leading a change effort, you need to remove the ambiguity from your vision of change. Granted

Focusing is great for analyzing alternatives but terrible for spotting them. Think about the visual analogy—when we focus we sacrifice peripheral vision.

If you want people to change, you must provide crystal-clear direction.

Top management challenged employees to be on the lookout for potential innovations—

The destination was crystal clear:

prospective hindsight" to work backward from a certain future—they are better at generating explanations for why the event might happen.