Quotes on Vision

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.

The minute you start the process of deciding to make a film and you're communicating that vision to anyone, you're in the process of selling. If you don't understand that, you're not in show business. You're just not.

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world belongs to them, they parley at the river with the dogs, their higher, sharper voices full of authority and rebuke. They are an old council of clowns, and they are listened to.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What befalls me befalls you. And downstream, downstream in this river of life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

May you live all the days of your life.