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Quotes About Vision

The true reality is the one you perceive around you, or that which you are fortunate enough to imagine for yourself.
~ Christopher Priest
Architecture aims at Eternity.
~ Christopher Wren
I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Can you imagine it, Alister? Can you imagine what it was like for a shade like me to experience the world again through all of your senses- vision and touch, and smell and taste and hearing?" "I wouldn't have gone to the library, I'll tell you that," Han said. Crow laughed. "I like you, Alister. All of this would have been easier if you were unlikable. And stupid. You would have been considerably more tractable.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Sometimes a dream is enough.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Your business? Which is?" "
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Karena kami dipimpin oleh seorang pemimpih lemah yang bersemangat tikus, kami tidak berani berjuang. Tetapi bila kami dipimpin oleh seorang pemimpin kuat yang bersemangat banteng, kami akan bertempur.
~ Cindy Adams
Seribu orang tua hanya dapat bermimpi, satu anak muda dapat mengubah dunia.
~ Cindy Adams
We started talking and came to the conclusion that building a good, solid relationship is like forging metals. Life and emotions are the fire, but it's our vision of what we want to create and our willingness to pound with determination that give us a sturdy, useful end product.
~ Unknown
L'utopia storica ha bisogno di volti che la incarnino.
~ Unknown
Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.
~ Claire LaZebnik
Basically it means the world's a giant shithole, but some of us are capable of imagining something better.
~ Claire LaZebnik
The people who succeed are the ones who think through what they really want from the experience and then work incredibly hard, day after day, to attain their goals. They don't just flop around like fish out of water. They have a vision, and they work their asses off to make it a reality.
~ Claire Thompson
And really, does anybody believe that Michelangelo just decided to carve the David one day and went out and bought a slab of marble?
~ Unknown
Jesus did not want to be economically vulnerable. He wanted to be poor so that he could make his decisions clearly without any distortion of vision. Because Jesus wanted to see clearly, because he didn't want to be vulnerable, and because he wanted to deal justly and to walk humbly with his God, he was a pauper.
~ Clarence Jordan
Quem se recusa à visão de um bicho está com medo de si próprio.
~ Clarice Lispector
The chicken lives as if in a dream. She has no sense of reality. All the chicken's fright comes because they're always interrupting her reverie. The chicken is a sound sleep. . . . The chicken has plenty of inner life. To be honest, the only thing the chicken really has is inner life. Our vision of her inner life is what we call "chicken.
~ Clarice Lispector
I am transfiguring reality—what is it that's escaping me? why don't I reach out my hand and take it? It's because I only dreamed of the world but never saw it.
~ Clarice Lispector
The struggle to reach reality—that's the main objective of this creature who tries, in every way, to cling to whatever exists by means of a total vision of things. I meant to make clear too the way vision—the way of seeing, the viewpoint—alters reality, constructing it. A house is not only constructed with stones, cement etc. A man's way of looking constructs it too.
~ Clarice Lispector
Maybe I have merely undergone a great, slow disintegration. And my struggle against that disintegration is just that: is just trying to give it a form. A form gives contours to chaos, gives a construct to amorphous substance… the vision of an infinite flesh is a madman's vision, but if I cut that flesh into pieces and spread those pieces over days and famines… then it will no longer be perdition and madness: it will be humanized life again.
~ Clarice Lispector
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.
~ Claude M. Bristol
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.
~ Claude M. Bristol
You have to think big to be big.
~ Claude M. Bristol
Death, before erasing me from the world, erases my desire to know the world. What's the good of seeing if you can't see everything, or see forever.
~ Unknown