Quotes About Vision

Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.

If we are going to be able to create a new economic vision, companies will need to rethink every aspect of their operations; their bottom lines, ownership structures, demands on financial returns, how they raise capital. For example, an ethical company would say it should only take a fair share of the planet's resources and campaign on this.

As an entrepreneur, one of my biggest struggles is that you have to focus, but you also have to expand.

I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time.

I certainly have opinions about things, but we're a service organization. Our job is to try and realize the director's vision.

I learnt a lot of things in Holland, as people have great vision there. It improved me as a player and a person. I had very good coaches that wanted to play offensive football and dominate games and be better than their opponent. You also need to play for your team-mates as well as yourself; then, afterwards, you can show your own quality.

In politics, your opponent can be far more important than your vision.

An entrepreneurial mind is always looking for new opportunities.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

What's important is that you build your company to be able to capture the opportunity as it comes.

I don't think it is ever enough for a governing majority to simply be opposed to things. We have to be for things.

I always wanted to make a show that had everything I wanted to watch, as opposed to just one or two things.

Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.

There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!

Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently.

I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.

Working for Oprah is a dream come true. She was on my dream board for the longest time.

I like Oprah. I could sit around and make vision boards all day, but I wouldn't actually get anything done if I were to concentrate on my feelings rather than doing.

I was fascinated with optical illusions.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

Optics can drive an economy.

Let optimists rule the world.

I am a natural optimist, as entrepreneurs tend to be.

If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.