Quotes About Vision

Let's go bother Clearsight!

She had a really odd expression on her face, as if the agony of the prophecy vision had suddenly popped and meerkats had come cartwheeling out of the cracked mountain instead of death.

He hummed a line of his song. "We see.

Shield your thoughts? Silence the voices? By all the moons, why has nobody trained you to step outside your visions?

I could fix them. I could do it right now … I could enchant that bandage so when she takes it off, she could see for the first time in her life.

She closed her eyes and tried to see if a future unfolded around that idea. Would she end up in the asylum?

Deathbringer had found his night vision growing stronger the longer he was away from the Night Kingdom.

But come on," Foeslayer had said, rolling her eyes. "How can she call that a 'gift of vision'? Is there anything less visionary you could do with your powers? Don't listen to her, Arctic. It's your magic. Make something completely wonderful with it." "Yeah?" he'd said. "Like what?

Second, and this is certainly related, those executives don't see the company's reason for existing as having any practical implications for the way they make decisions and run the organization.

When employees at all levels share a common understanding of where the company is headed, what success looks like, whom their competitors are, and what needs to be achieved to claim victory, there is a remarkably low level of wasted time and energy and a powerful sense of traction.

The map? I will first make it.

Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal it's difficult to score.

The relevant framework is not one of morality but of survival. At every level, from brute camouflage to poetic vision, the linguistic capacity to conceal, misinform, leave ambiguous, hypothesize, invent is indispensable to the equilibrium of human consciousness and to the development of man in society....—George Steiner, After Babel

In practice I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty.

Live in the future, then build what's missing.

The standard to compare your software to is what it could be, not what your current competitors happen to have.

memories of the Depression faded, economists fell back in love with the old, idealized vision of an economy in which rational individuals interact in perfect markets, this time gussied up with fancy equations. The renewed romance with the idealized market was, to be sure, partly a response to shifting political winds

Speak with intent so that you can lead with vision.

Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

You must always know what it is that you want.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

Never stop dreaming.

A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.