Quotes on Vision

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?

If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.

At the end of the day, people will follow you or people will be energised by you if they buy into your vision or purpose. So the most important thing is to be true to yourself. That's why I would say to be a great leader - you, first and foremost, have to be a great human being. And sharing that purpose and sharing the values.

Earn your leadership every day.

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

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives.

Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece - meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand all that name changing business anyway... No, he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.

Why was I able to be able to pass? What did I do right that allowed me to make a pass - any given pass? There's balance; there's vision.

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.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. Our children frighten us in their intimacy, but we make sure they grow up like us. Lukewarm like us. On a night like this, hands and faces hot, we can believe that tomorrow will show us angels in jars and that the well-known woods will suddenly reveal another path.