Quotes About Vision

George Bernard Shaw which Annabel quoted so often: "Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not.

He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

any poet who writes for the world beyond his own threshold should have something in his nature of the statesman.

I'm gonna have to get my eyes checked. I can't see crap until it's right in front of me

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

What are we going to do with the body? She had visions of dragging it into the swamp, whispering, Here, gator, gator, and she made a little sound of distress at the thought.

I don't want to feed my dreams.

When you look at fainted stars, you'll notice that they often appear brighter from the corner of your eye. Averted vision, we call it. Same with the answers you seek, you won't find them by staring until your eyes fall out. They'll come when you're look somewhere else.

the liberty of the soul is lost through the windows of the eyes

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

The greatest minds never realise their ideals in any matter;

They awe us, these strange stars, so cold, so clear.  We are as children whose small feet have strayed into some dim-lit temple of the god they have been taught to worship but know not; and, standing where the echoing dome spans the long vista of the shadowy light, glance up, half hoping, half afraid to see some awful vision hovering there. And

one that lingers long upon the retina of memory.

Such a man became a leader, one of the great men, who guided people in their thoughts and deeds, as a weaver guides his colored threads through the intricacies of the pattern.

A gardener! Isn't that the perfect description of what a real businessman is?

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

The eye sees everything upside down," the artist explained, "and then the brain automatically reverses it. I'm just trying to put it back the way the mind sees it." Alvis

First, her father had a minor stroke, giving Claire a glimpse of his mortality and, by extension, her own. And then she had a vision of herself thirty years in the future: a spinster librarian in an apartment full of cats named after New Wave directors. (Godard, leave Rivette's chew toy alone—)

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination

I think there are very few people who have a capacity to see the future. So it can be difficult when you are talking about something where nothing about it exists yet.

Much better to figure out where the marketplace is going to be in a few years, focus on providing a solution to that, and let the market forces catch up to you.

The really dramatic growth happens when a startup only has three of four people, so only three or four people see that, whereas tens of thousands see business as it's practiced by Boeing or Philip Morris.

Beer goggles are no match for atrocious lighting.