Quotes About Vision

People who know what kind of new world they want to create through revolution are trouble enough; those who only know what they want to destroy are a curse.

Enter Ronald Reagan. Roosevelt's political vision was no longer compelling to members of the relatively affluent, hyperindividualized, and suburbanized society America had become.

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Leaders are dealers in hope.

Believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.

First, believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do—that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written—it is written by leaders.

contrary to conventional leadership in which the leader's focus is on himself and what he can accomplish and achieve. Rather, the focus is on those being served. Servant leaders do many of the same things other leaders do—cast vision, build teams, allocate resources, and so on. The big difference is their orientation and their motivation; these make all the difference in the world. They possess an others-first mindset. The servant leader constantly works to help others win.

My challenge to you: Get ready to lead and opportunities to lead will not be your problem.

Many people in the world see events as they are; leaders are different in that they see things that could be. And the future they see is always a better version of the present. We believe we can make a difference; we think we can make the world, or at least our part of it, better. Leaders are generally more optimistic than nonleaders.

The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed.

I dreamed big," she recalled. "Why not?

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

A writer's two greatest tools are imagination and perseverance.

Every reader is a casting director.

Don't think. Imagine. Imagination is the firebed of a novel

For once I myself saw with my own eyes      the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a cage,          and when the boys said to her,              Ã¢â'¬Å"Sibyl what do you want?"          she replied, "I want to die." T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

I was a boy, and I believed deeply in the sightedness of horses. I believed that there was nothing that they did not witness. I believed that to have a horse between my legs, to extend my pulse and blood and energy to theirs, enhanced my vision. Made of me a seer. I believed them to be the dappled, sorrel, roan, bay, black pupils in the eyes of God.

Maybe that's all it takes for the future to exist, Pino thought. You must imagine it first. You must dream it first.

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Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.