Quotes About Vision

One thing I had figured out by then was that talent, like everything else, was just a starting point. What counted was what you did with it. I knew I wasn't the most talented guitar player or the best singer or the best writer, but I could do all of those things, and I had a complete vision of what it was going to take to succeed---a vision that included working, working, working.

As Napoleon later put it, when describing his feelings at this time: "I saw the way to achieve all my dreams. . . . I would found a religion, I saw myself marching on the way to Asia, mounted on an elephant, a turban on my head, and in my hand a new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs. In my enterprises I would have combined the experiences of the two worlds, exploiting the realm of all history for my own profit."7

Devido ao fato de o pecado cegar, Deus estabeleceu o corpo de Cristo para atuar como um instrumento de visão em nossa vida, de tal maneira que podemos nos conhecer com uma profundidade e exatidão que seriam impossíveis se fôssemos deixados à nossa própria sorte.

David Bowie had grasped a fundamental truth: before you can be a genius, you have to seem like a genius.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

Kimi zaman penceredeki manzara, duvara as?lm?? bir tablodur yaln?zca; kimi zaman oda, orada olmam? de?il, bütünü görmemi engelleyen, a?açlar aras?nda bir kabuktan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir.

Der Mensch lebt und stirbt in dem, was er sieht, aber er sieht nur was er träumt.

A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.

Verbeelding is een uitstekend vertrekpunt voor verandering.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

If you have a dream, FOLLOW IT.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

I have so many schemes about writing – so much I want to see and feel and do.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

If you don't know where you're going, you're never going to get there.

What do you like? What do you want? What do you believe? What do you envision? What do you dream will happen in the future? Those who have lost a strong sense of personal identity answer those questions with blank expressions.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

if i am not in the world simply to adapt to it, but rather transform it, and if it is not possible to change the world without a certain dream or vision for it, i must make use of every possibility there is not only to speak about my utopia, but also to engage in practices consistent with it.

No hay cambio sin sueño, como no hay sueño sin esperanza.

Daí que, à linguagem da possibilidade, que comporta a utopia como sonho possível, prefiram o discurso neoliberal, pragmático

It is not I who mix the colors but your own vision,' he answered. 'I only place them next to one another on the wall in their natural state; it is the observer who mixes the colors in his own eye, like porridge. Therein lies the secret. The better the porridge, the better the painting, but you cannot make good porridge from bad buckwheat. Therefore, faith in seeing, listening, and reading is more important than faith in painting, singing, or writing.

Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.

Wake me not if this is vision, Let me sleep not if 'tis true.

Twas a dream that once a state I enjoyed of light and gladness.