Quotes on Vision

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world-not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and the bombs and missiles lie at the bottom of the ocean like the bones of dinosaurs buried under the shale of eras.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

It is today that we create the world of the future.

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.

Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.