Quotes About Vision

SMART goals presume the emotion; they don't generate it. In looking for a goal that reaches the Elephant—that hits people in the gut—you can't bank on SMART goals.

The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.

When you begin to weave your own desires into your vision, the true seeing is taken from you.

I couldn't stop myself from wondering, over and over, why he considered Arjun more fitting to receive this vision. What crucial ingredient did I lack that the mystery of the universe should forever elude me?

If they can put one man on the moon why can't they put them all there?

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

Leaders lead for the joy of creating something bigger than themselves.

Leadership is the influence of others in a productive, vision-driven direction and is done through the example, conviction, and character of the leader.

What separates a leader from the rest is not only his ability to see what needs to be done but his unhesitating execution of it, even while others watch or deliberate.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

A retired teacher paid $62 000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215 000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future

The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is. You

Without light, how can you keep the sight of the eyes? Without a future, how can you preserve the government? [...] We could have a most dilligent Home Secretary of Lunchtime. We could have an excellent Prime Minister of the Quietest Part of the Late Afternoon. But when twilight comes -do you see?- our world disappears. It cannot see beyond the day because you have taken tomorrow. And because you have tomorrow in front of your eyes, you cannot see what is being done today.

You are not bad people. You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future.

But if you don't take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!

The earliest impressions are pictographic in form - little pictures that are the stylized versions of the things they represent. And most things they represent are plants and animals. The earliest writing deprived from vision rather than sound.

That's what engineering is all about, folks. Turning dreams into reality!

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What are you doing today that serves the greater mission for your life? Once you can answer that question without batting an eye, that's when you're really on to something.

Don't let the window of opportunity turn into a peephole

Beware of ANY vision at all in which you personally have been singled out to play a lead role in the redoing of all human history. You haven't.

No matter how dispassionate or large a vision of the world a woman formulates, whenever it includes her own experience and emotion, the telescope's turned back on her. Because emotion's just so terrifying the world refuses to believe that it can be pursued as discipline, as form. Dear Dick, I want to make the world more interesting than my problems. Therefore, I have to make my problems social.

No matter how dispassionate or large a vision of the world a woman formulates, whenever it includes her own experience and emotion, the telescope's turned back on her. Because emotion's just so terrifying the world refuses to believe that it can be pursued as discipline, as form.