Quotes About Vision

You can choose to see your goal with 20/20 accuracy, and when you can see a goal that clearly, you can achieve it.

From the point of view of high generalship those holding attacks had served their purpose pretty well. From the point of view of mother's sons they had been a bloody shambles without any gain. The point of view depends on the angle of vision.

This is what fascinates me most: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language.

Isn't a beautiful dream better than a cruel reality?

Madness, he thought. The ultimate horror for our para­noid culture: vicious unseen mechanical entities that flit at the edges of our vision, that can go anywhere, that are in our very midst.

Maybe it's you fuckers, Fred said, who're seeing the universe backward, like in a mirror. Maybe I see it right.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

Something looked at him. With its mouth. It had eaten most of its own eyes.

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Che cosa vede una camera? si chiese. Voglio dire, che cosa vede per davvero? E fin dove? Anche dentro la testa? Anche giù dentro il cuore?

You're in a world full of color and you want to see it in black and white.

You won't understand anything about the imagination until you realise that it's not about making things up, it's about perception.

Had reason ever created a poem, or a symphony, or a painting? If rationality can't see things like the secret commonwealth, it's because rationality's vision is limited. The secret commonwealth is there. We can't see it with rationality any more than we can weigh something with a microscope: it's the wrong sort of instrument. We need to imagine as well as measure ...

You won't understand anything about imagination until you realise that it's not about making things up, it's about perception.

We need to imagine as well as measure.

Not randomly, though. Farder Coram was a chess player, and he knew how chess players looked at a game in play. An expert player seemed to see lines of force and influence on the board, and looked along the important lines and ignored the weak ones; and Lyra's eyes moved the same way, according to some similar magnetic field that she could see and he couldn't.

There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. • I KINGS •

A song of tough love for a generation whose eyes have moved fish-like to the sides of its head, forward vision usurped by a numb need to survive the now, side-placed eyes scanning for any garde of which to be avant .

The sun, if your fluttering eye catches it even slightly, gives you the blue and red floaters a flashbulb gives you.

May all your dreams come true, save one.

Drawing his sword, he gazed down at the gleaming blade. 'I pledge you to the destruction of Sparta,' he whispered. Raising the weapon high he pointed it to the south-east and, though the city was far beyond his range of vision, he pictured the sword poised above it with the sun's harsh light turning it to fire.