Quotes About Vision

If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa's glory.

The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behavior reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how to behave within the framework of a domination system. He was a critic of the domination system itself.

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.

And you'll need a leader to do it. A man of bold vision, one who promises you a world where you're not only safe—you're in charge. Not equal rights. Superiority for the superior.

It's easy. Everybody else on the field, they look where the opposing line is. I look where they're going to be. Then I just head somewhere else." —BARRY ADAMS, RUNNING BACK FOR THE CHICAGO BEARS, ON HOW HE WAS ABLE TO RUSH 2,437 YARDS IN A SINGLE SEASON, SHATTERING THE PREVIOUS RECORD (2,105, BY ERIC DICKERSON IN 1984)

the problem with looking for your glasses is that you don't have your glasses on while you're looking . . .

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

It was like a new kind of vision, seeing with eyes as keen as scalpel blades, that cut away desires and emotions and wishful thinking and left only what was fact.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Most people don't realize that since the time of Apollo we've been in a feedback loop: as a nation, we elect representatives who thwart NASA, and then we blame NASA for its lack of vision.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

The challenge is quite formidable if you spell it out explicitly: artists must look at a three-dimensional scene with their two-dimensional retinas and then generate a two-dimensional painting that appears three-dimensional to viewers who look at it with their two-dimensional retinas.

And romantic," she added, smiling at the man whose deep-set blue eyes now saw everything so clearly, "but I never dreamed it would turn out so wonderfully for all of us.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time-as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis," the mage whispered, "I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.

The point of creating futures is to get people to imagine what they want and don't want to happen down the road – and maybe do something about it.

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

That is, when ordinary reality is perceived as a construction rather than as an objective fact, fantasy can no longer be thought of as what contaminates reality, but should instead be regarded as a process of bringing the world alive for us in a particularly vibrant fashion. According to this vision, "reality" is a fantasy that we elaborate on an increasingly intricate level during our entire lifetimes.

BesideCother art to be learned -- not to see what is not.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.