Quotes About Vision

But such niggling distractions on the periphery matter little once you've set your sights so squarely on what you want most. By

naked eye."*

Cats have the largest eyes of any mammal.

Cats have an extra eyelid.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eye off the goal." —Hannah More6

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die." — Daniel Burnham, Chicago architect

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

We can't afford to be Pollyannas or blind ourselves to real dangers, but we also should try not to succumb to despair. If we believe our vision for what our country is is worth fighting for, then we should fight for it. This is our right and duty as citizens.

Always make your future bigger than your past.

That's what real leadership is: Creating and clarifying the vision (the "what"), and giving that vision greater context and importance (the "why") for all Whos involved. Once the "what" and "why" have clearly been established, the specified "Who" or "Whos" have all they need to go about executing the "How." All the leader needs to do at that point is support and encourage the Who(s) through the process.

That's what real leadership is: Creating and clarifying the vision (the "what"), and giving that vision greater context and importance (the "why") for all Whos involved.

I believe that Smith probably had in mind a number of shifting geographic models:

Smith's confidence prevented him from appreciating the possibility of failure. The only thing that lay ahead was planning and building—turning his utopian vision into reality.

Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?

A dream is a vision of the future, in light of the past, tainted by imagination.

Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

I'd gladly read something that is exceptionally stupid or bad as long as it was done by someone with some sort of personal vision, even if that person was a complete moron.

What ignited the progress wasn't any innate skill or gene. It was a small, ephemeral, yet powerful idea: a vision of their ideal future selves, a vision that oriented, energized, and accelerated progress, and that originated in the outside world.

Creative skills, on the other hand, are about empowering a group to do the hard work of building something that has never existed before.

Preview Future Connection:

El arquitecto del invernadero

This place is like a greenhouse," Hsieh says. "In some greenhouses, the leader plays the role of the plant that every other plant aspires to. But that's not me. I'm not the plant that everyone aspires to be. My job is to architect the greenhouse.

We don't normally think about belonging to big groups in this way. Normally, when we think about belonging to big groups, we think about great communicators who create a vivid and compelling vision for others to follow. But that is not what's happening here. In fact, Hsieh is anticharismatic, he does not communicate particularly well, and his tools are grade school simple—Meet people, you'll figure it out. So why does it work so well?