Vision Quotations

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.

I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.

With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into which it is going. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.

I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

I think the success around any product is really about subtle insights. You need a great product and a bigger vision to execute against, but its really those small things that make the big difference.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

In order for our country and economy to get on the right track again, we need a leader who understands how the real economy works and has the vision to fundamentally change Washington. That leader is Mitt Romney. No other candidate in the field possesses his lifetime of success in both the private sector and as a governor.

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

Create your future from your future, not your past.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms and molecules.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

You really can't turn on TLC without seeing us.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

I like being in new places and seeing new sights.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city,

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

You have to think big to be big.

Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God.

Don't buy this 'believe in yourself' rubbish. Why do they keep telling youngsters that? There's no point believing in yourself if you don't know what you're doing. Once you've got a vision of what you want to do, by all means stick to that passionately and doggedly. Believe in your ideas. It's not quite the same thing.

As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.

It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.

Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

As much as I enjoy seeing other guys do the superhero approach to the Batman universe, personally my own vision falls a bit left of center.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light.