Quotes About Vision

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

From the pain come the dream From the dream come the vision From the vision come the people From the people come the power From this power come the change.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Everything begins with an idea.

My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power.

Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

Try to see yourself with power. Not power so that you can get even with anybody else. Power so that you can become even with your vision- Maya Angelo

If you can dream it, you can become it.

I have spent most of my life most happily in making plans for others to carry out.

What is now proved was once imagined.

The vision of Christ that thou dost seeIs my vision's greatest enemy.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

If you cry, "Forward," you must make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely the opposite directions? ANTON CHEKHOV, RUSSIAN WRITER

The impatient leader is likely to want to Redream the Dream and Recapture the Venture Spirit and get the renewal-generating organizational infrastructure in place and working tomorrow!

What is called "innovation" usually represents a new Dream.

Purpose You can explain the basic purpose behind the outcome you seek. People have to understand the logic of it before they will turn their minds to work on it. Picture You can paint a picture of how the outcome will look and feel. People need to experience it imaginatively before they can give their hearts to it. Plan You can lay out a step-by-step plan for phasing in the outcome. People need a clear idea of how they can get where they need to go.

One of the most important leadership roles during times of change is that of putting into words what it is time to leave behind. Because talking about making a break with the past can upset its defenders, some leaders shy away from articulating just what it is time to say good-bye to. But in their unwillingness to say what it is time to let go of, they are jeopardizing the very change that they believe they are leading.