Quotes About Vision

And at the bottom of each of those eyes I lived, or rather another me lived, one of the images of me, and it encountered the image of her, the most faithful image of her, in that beyond which opens up, past the semi-liquid sphere of the irises, in the darkness of the pupils, the mirrored hall of the retinas, in our true element which extends without shores, without boundaries. Excerpt

Non era molto, ma a me che non cercavo altro che immagini da tenere negli occhi, forse bastava.

And at the bottom of each of those eyes I lived, or rather another me lived, one of the images of me, and it encountered the image of her, the most faithful image of her, in that beyond which opens, past the semiliquid sphere of the irises, in the darkness of the pupils, the mirrored hall of the retinas, in our true element which extends without shores, without boundaries.

Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have function." — Italo Calvino

He covers his eyes, as if pursued by the sight of billions of pages, lines, words, whirling in a dust storm.

When my eyes closed, however, in the darkness I saw that her words had created a new world, like all words that are not true. I

You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.

a vision from when they were young and unmarred by what lay ahead of them in life. Memory does that, unerring as a spotlight.

Convivial tools are those which give each person who uses them the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment with the fruits of his or her vision.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.

A leader shows patience by not running too far ahead of his followers and thus discouraging them. While keeping ahead, he stays near enough for them to keep him in sight and hear his call forward.

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

The most exciting thing for me is crossing that bridge between something we know is real and something that is extraordinary. The thing for me has always been how you cross that bridge.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking out new landscapes but in having new eyes. (ATTRIB. MARCEL PROUST, 1871–1922)

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking out new landscapes but in having new eyes. ATTRIB. MARCEL PROUST

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

Those who have most powerfully and permanently influenced their generation have been "seers" -- people who have seen more and farther than others -- persons of faith, for faith is vision.