Quotes About Vision

I suppose I try to be a translator of sorts, striving to translate emotion and vision into words, to express the life force of animals and landscapes, to give them voice. I pore over the lustrous details of nature and human nature. How different is this from a monk devoting his life to an illuminated manuscript?

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.

For me, to see is to read. It has always been that way.

The past had no hold on him. Perhaps that's why his vision of the future was so strong. Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly? You

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

The progressives and socialists advanced their own dream in opposition to the American dream.

It's one thing to have the vision for a new business, Schumpeter writes, but entirely something else to figure out how to do it. Here we have the second element of entrepreneurship, which involves organizing the business.

I wasn't merely remembering, it seemed to be trapped inside my eyelids.

Oh, mother, make the right thing happen for Rose!"—and I had a vision of poor mother scurrying from Heaven to do the best she could. The way one's mind can dash about just while one opens a window!

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.

Being here is a kind of spiritual surrender. We see only what the others see. The thousands who were here in the past, those who will come in the future. We've agreed to be part of a collective perception. This literally colors our vision. A religious experience in a way, like all tourism.

If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?

As my friend and coach, Nelson Searcy, says, "Hope is not a church strategy.

The elders constantly reminded Sacred Feathers of the need to make a vision quest -- to obtain, through fasting, a guardian spirit to guide and protect them through life. Animals, birds, and fish could speak with them and, in a dream or vision, give their power.

My criticism was that you never understood the larger picture, said the Dead Father. Young men never understand the larger picture. -I don't suggest I understand it now. I do understand the frame. The limits. -Of course the frame is easier to understand. -Older people tend to overlook the frame, even when they are looking right at it, said Thomas. They don't like to think about it.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

If you ever have the chance to hear his "Think Big" talk, grab the opportunity.

Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.

I want to be with people who are humble and hungry, have healthy relationships, and are working to create new and better realities in the world.

The goal for our branding should be that every potential customer knows exactly where we want to take them:

I wonder if what might help couples build great families is to pick a place for their family to go and then hit the gas, to work toward their vision and build it out.