Vision Quotes

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
John L. Lewis

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
Tupac Shakur

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
Janis Joplin

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
Jimi Hendrix

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Rainer Maria Rilke

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Marquis de Sade

My dream is to save women from nature.
Christian Dior

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Stevie Wonder

To hell with facts! We need stories.
Ken Kesey

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Martha Graham

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say when.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
Doris Day

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
Annie Dillard

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
Neil Armstrong

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
Ed Wood

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

The dream to kill me will never be completed.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Charles M. Schwab

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.
Greta Garbo

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.
Jason Mraz

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
Barbara Kingsolver

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
Jim Valvano

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill Gates

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
John Le Carre

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
Muhammad Yunus

I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.
Murray Walker

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
David Hockney

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.
Murray Walker

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Dorothea Lange