Quotes About Vision

Bad writing does nothing, changes nothing, educates no emotions, rewires no inner circuitry - we close its covers with the same metaphysical confidence in the universality of our own interface as we did when we opened it. But great writing - great writing forces you to submit to its vision. You spend the morning reading Chekhov and in the afternoon, walking through your neighbourhood, the world has turned Chekhovian; the waitress in the cafe offers a non- sequitur, a dog dances in the street.

She dressed for a future not yet with us but which she expected to arrive.

You dream… or you're driven mad.

You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell of imitators. For this painter didn't care about masterpieces, or even good paintings... but about what is beyond all painting, all art.

Nico: Prodigium effodio -- what does that mean again? Vision: Excavating monster. It's Latin. Nico: Damn, how much time did you spend in the library? Vision: I am a library.

What is done with one's vision of the past has enormous implications for how present realities are handled and the quality of idealism that can be applied to shaping the future.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what is was.

De wife she de eyes to de man's soul. How kin I see now, when I ain' gottee de eyes no mo'?

The dark obscurity into which her career then lapsed reflects her staunchly independent political stances rather than any deficiency of craft or vision.

he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon.

After all the imagination is a beautiful thing.

Ah can look through muddy water and see dry land.

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

If I choose to direct something, it's because I don't think it would get accepted.

I just know what I want in life. I know what I want to achieve.

I admire Akira Kurosawa. I have a deep admiration for him and I would love to make films like that.

If I find what I like, maybe in about five years we'll be able to afford to build a home in the country.

I know that I won't be an athlete forever. I have to have a vision of what I want to be afterward.

I don't want Droga5 to be the biggest agency; I want it to be the best.

I think our agenda is very aspirational.

I think it's important for every individual to have a vision, to have an aim. If you don't have an aim, you don't think; if you don't think, you can't achieve.

They say aim for the stars, but I want to aim beyond the stars.

We've always wanted to aim to be the only one and hopefully one day we'll be able to create this new genre called Babymetal.