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Quotes About Vision

Como una calavera estancada en la zona sur de Santiago, la obra gruesa del Hospital del Trabajador ahí quedó sin terminar, sin ver realizado el macroproyecto de salud que Salvador Allende soñó para este sector de la capital.
~ Unknown
When we've defined femininity for their generation so narrowly, in such a sexualized, commercialized, heteroeroticized way, where is the space, the vision, the celebration of other ways to be a girl?
~ Peggy Orenstein
More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the sky is blue to give us an idea of the infinite. And that blood is red so that murder will be more easily detected and criminals will be brought to justice. Yes, and I believe that I shall live forever, but I shall live without reason.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
M]aze-treaders, whose vision ahead and behind is severely constricted and fragmented, suffer confusion, whereas maze-viewers who see the pattern whole, from above or in a diagram, are dazzled by its complex artistry. What you see depends on where you stand . . . Our perception of labyrinths is thus intrinsically unstable: change your perspective and the labyrinth seems to change.
~ Unknown
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
~ Penn Jillette
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~ Penney Peirce
When I started on this I had forty-forty vision.
~ Unknown
By solemn vision and bright silver dream His infancy was nurtured. Every sight And sound from the vast earth and ambient air Sent to his heart its choicest impulses.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Siamo noi che, perduti in tempestose visioni, conduciamo una vana lotta contro gli spettri, e in una folle trance con il coltello dello spirito colpiamo, invulnerabili, nulla.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world":
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soft as an Incarnation of the Sun, When light is changed to love, this glorious One Floated into the cavern where I lay, And called my Spirit, and the dreaming clay Was lifted by the thing that dreamed below As smoke by fire, and in the beauty's glow I stood, and felt the dawn of my long night Was penetrating me with living light: I knew it was the Vision veiled from me So many years - that it was Emily. - Epipsychidion
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.
~ Unknown
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
~ Unknown
True prayer intercessors have double vision. They see in the natural and they see in the spirit.
~ Unknown
He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.
~ Pete Hamill
The first step to success it's to imagine it
~ Pete Hautman
If you can imagine it, you're halfway there
~ Pete Hautman
Create vivid pictures of attainable futures that are safer, friendlier, and more prosperous. Cite
~ Unknown
Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
~ Peter Ackroyd
The music and applause fast fading from his ears, Bruce would lay down his guitar, grit his teeth, and walk dutifuly back into his father's charred vision of the world.
~ Unknown
To fantasies', he said. 'Tell me about yours.' His eyes were a bright, liquid blue, and his lips were parted in a half smile.
~ Peter Benchley
Bigger May Be Better The size of a brain tumor may not matter nearly as much as where it's located. You may have a very large tumor that is benign and can be taken out readily, or you may have a very small tumor that is much more difficult to deal with because it is pressing on a delicate area such as your optic nerve, the nerve in your brain that affects your vision.
~ Unknown
Why do anything unless it is going to be great?
~ Peter Block