Quotes About Vision

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

Then we shall riseAnd view ourselves with clearer eyesIn that calm region where no nightCan hide us from each other's sight.

Blindness is a handicap of mobility, deafness one of communication. Terrible as is loss of vision, it does not distance the blind from the sighted the way loss of hearing separates the deaf from the normal.

The average deaf person has the peripheral vision of a fish-eye lens, almost 180 degrees, and spots the tiniest movement within this range long before the average hearing person can do so. In practical terms this superior visual acuity has led some automobile insurance companies in recent years to give sizable rate discounts to deaf drivers.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

were history confined to the mechanical repetition of the past, no transformation would ever have occurred. Every great achievement was a vision before it became a reality. In that sense, it arose from commitment, not resignation to the inevitable.

A great president must be an educator, bridging the gap between his people's future and its experience

É que a visão americana assentava não na adoção do sistema europeu de equilíbrio de poder, mas na expansão dos princípios democráticos, de que resultaria o triunfo da paz.

Every great achievement was a vision before it became a reality. In that sense, it arose from commitment, not resignation to the inevitable.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to ccept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

I cannot reach it, and my striving eyeDazzles at it, as at eternity.

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of pure and endless light.

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright;

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.