Quotes on Vision

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.