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The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.
Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.
To get where we want to go in life, we have to keep at it. We have to create a vision, make choices based on what moves us most swiftly toward our goals, and go after them with determination and single-mindedness.
Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.
You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.
The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding of it. Censorship in his case has perpetrated heavy and sometimes reprehensible blunders.
From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.
Much of the big media outlets in North America are owned by arms manufacturers, like Westinghouse, or G.E. [General Electric]. That's unacceptable. So we're not getting editorial policy, we're not getting a vision of truth. People just don't know what is going on anymore, and that's really dangerous stuff.
And it falls to a true leader to see to it that his or her people have an inspiring vision to pursue.
A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.
If you want to be a person with a large vision, you must cultivate the habit of doing the little things well.
Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.
Days, when the ball of our vision_x000D__x000D_Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun;_x000D__x000D_When the graps on the bow was decision,_x000D__x000D_And arrow and hand and eye were one;_x000D__x000D_When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer,_x000D__x000D_Came heaving for rapture ahead! -_x000D__x000D_Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer_x000D__x000D_As lights over mounds of the dead.
Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
So far, designing is the most exciting thing. Ive done I have a vision of what I want the clothes to look like in my mind and its fun to see it come alive on paper.
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